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They had only one store, a two-room school, a nursery, and one church.This represented all that remained of a once-thriving antebellum black society which developed after the original plantation owners left the island. After the boll weevil caused cotton crop failures and pollution ruined oyster beds, forcing more and more residents to sell their land to commercial developers, it became obvious that Daufuskie would be transformed into a coastal resort like neighboring Hilton Head. These photos of family gatherings, ox-carts, crabbing, children at play, church services, and the toils of everyday existence independent from many conveniences of modernity form a vibrant mosaic of life as rewarding as it was rough-hewn and serve as a visual record of an African American subculture that no longer exists.Redesigned from cover to cover, this 25th anniversary edition includes more than fifty previously unpublished photographs, a new preface by Deborah Willis and new epilogue by Moutoussamy-Ashe.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50099499073809,"sku":"CIN1570037485G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50103885070609,"sku":"CIN1570037485VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1570037485.jpg?v=1751309711"},{"product_id":"viewfinders-book-jeanne-moutoussamy-ashe-9780863161582","title":"Viewfinders","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50138813628689,"sku":"CIN0863161588G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50731609391377,"sku":"GOR008628076","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51916413698321,"sku":"GOR014460214","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53138272190737,"sku":"GOR009624417","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0863161588.jpg?v=1750883862"},{"product_id":"viewfinders-book-jeanne-moutoussamy-ashe-9780396086116","title":"Viewfinders","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50350229258513,"sku":"CIN039608611XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/039608611X.jpg?v=1751197147"},{"product_id":"jeanne-moutoussamy-ashe-south-africa-1977-78-book-peter-w-kunhardt-jr-9783969994726","title":"Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe: South Africa 1977-78","description":"\u003cp\u003eThrough photography, writing, and activism, Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe transforms the personal into a broader meditation on contemporary society and politics. Raised on the South Side of Chicago in the 1950s and '60s, Moutoussamy-Ashe's understanding of race and class was shaped by the city's systemic discriminatory practices; as she later reflected, Chicago had, \"in its own way, a form of apartheid.\" After encountering Ernest Cole's photographs and training with mentors such as Gordon Parks and Garry Winogrand in the early 1970s, Moutoussamy-Ashe traveled to South Africa at the height of apartheid, armed with her camera.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In March 1977, she accompanied her husband Arthur Ashe there, as part of a team filming a TV documentary on sports and apartheid. She returned alone the next year for political activist Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe's funeral. Visiting Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg and KwaZulu-Natal, and the townships of Alexandra, Kliptown, Lenasia and Soweto, she got to know the country and its people through her lens. 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