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Roll, Jordan, Roll by Julia Peterkin (text) and Doris Ulmann (photographs) New York: Robert O. Ballo, 1933

Doris Ulmann

(May 29, 1882 – August 28, 1934) was an American photographer, best known for her portraits of the people of Appalachia, particularly craftsmen and musicians, made between 1928 and 1934. via Wikipedia

Julia Peterkin

(October 31, 1880 – August 10, 1961) was an American author from South Carolina. In 1929 she won the Pulitzer Prize for Novel/Literature for her novel Scarlet Sister Mary. She wrote several novels about the plantation South, especially the Gullah people of the Lowcountry. She was one of the few white authors who wrote about the African-American experience. via Wikipedia

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Julia Peterkin : Died August 10, 1961

Julia Peterkin was an American author from South Carolina. In 1929 she won the Pulitzer Prize for Novel/Literature for her novel Scarlet Sister Mary. She wrote...

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Katharine Hepburn, Marion Hepburn, “Kit” Hepburn, Julia Peterkin, and Peg Hepburn at the horse races in North Carolina (1941)

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First Lines: Julia Peterkin - Scarlet Sister Mary

The black people who live in the Quarters at Blue Brook Plantation believe they are far the best black people living on the whole "Neck", as they call that long, narrow, rich strip of land lying between the sea on one side and the river with its swamps and deserted rice-fields on the other.

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My most comforting faith is that everything in the universe exists under law. Inanimate things, the same as we who try to reason, have their rules of being and abide by them faithfully. Stars and dew, birds and blades of grass, men and clods of earth have to fulfill their destinies.

JULIA PETERKIN - Living Philosophies