Description: Explores the African-American communities of the Cainhoy area of South Carolina.
Brief description: Herb Frazier is the public relations and marketing manager for Magnolia Plantation and Gardens near Charleston, SC. He grew up in the Ansonborough public housing projects in Charleston and at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He has edited and reported for five daily newspapers in the South, including his hometown paper, The Post and Courier. In 1990, the South Carolina Press Association named him Journalist of the Year. Frazier studied journalism at the University of South Carolina and taught newswriting as a visiting lecturer at Rhodes University in South Africa. He is a former Michigan Journalism Fellow at the University of Michigan.
Review Quotes:
"Herb Frazier has done what many of us have been unable or unwilling to do -- preserve the history of several of South Carolina's Gullah communities."
-South Carolina Congressman James E. Clyburn, House Majority Whip
"A major contribution to understanding the historical lives and challenges of the Gullah people from the Lowcountry near Charleston, South Carolina, enhanced by the special illustrative paintings by John W. Jones."
- Jonathan Green, Artist