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"Their Voodoism and magic charms...."

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 Their Voodoism and magic charms....
Two interesting pamphlets: "Slave-Conversion in South Carolina, 1830-1860," by Susan Markey Fickling, issued as a "Bulletin of the University of S.C.," Columbia, Sept. 1, 1924, 6 x 9, 59 pp. On religion among slaves in antebellum S.C. "...Most of those in the South were only two or three generations from barbarism...(and) clung to their Voodoism and magic charms...Most of the coast negroes utterly lacked initiative, but mulattoes were eager to learn. Superstition and deceit were leading traits...." Front cover separated, cover edge fragments lacking, toned, else very good. * "The Negro in the Abolitionist Movement," Herbert Aptheker, white Communist observer of black history, N.Y., 1941, 5 1/4 x 7 3/4, 48 pp. "The history of the American Negro is filled with deeds of unsurpassed heroism...This is true from 1526, the year of the first slave rebellion in present-day S.C., to the C(ivil War)...." Some cover soiling, else V.F. and evidently unread. (2 pcs.)