J. Douglas Allen-taylor

Sugaree Rising J. Douglas Allen-taylor

Set in the South Carolina coastal area Lowcountry in the late Depression years, Sugaree Rising is the story of community resistance to a massive community relocation forced by a Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)-style dam building and rural electrification project. The novel also details the struggles of a unique group of Lowcountry African-American people-commonly known as ""the Gullah""-to maintain a religion and culture largely based in their ancestral African homeland.