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This is a collection of folktales told in the obscure dialect of the Gullah people, mingled with standard English for readability
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Lionel Bascom
Prof. Lionel Bascom has taught writing in the Department of Writing, Linguistics and Creative Process at Western Connecticut State University for more than 30 years. Prof. Bascom's journalism has been published in the New York Times, Time Inc., United Press International and newspapers and magazines throughout the world. He was twice a member of the distinguished Pulitzer Prize jury in journalism at Columbia University.
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