Books are sold at the Midway Museum’s bookstore (same hours as the Museum). Because this is a unique selection, and many of the books are no longer easily findable on the market, prices and availability vary. To order books sent to you, call the Museum during business hours at 912-884-5837 or use our book list (here) to send an inquiry email to our staff.
Wrestlin’ Jacob: A Portrait of Religion in Antebellum Georgia and the Carolina Low Country (by Erskine Clarke)
Wrestlin’ Jacob is the classic work on the effort by white Christian ministers throughout the 1800’s to evangelize the enslaved African Americans of Liberty County, Georgia, and Charleston, South Carolina. Dr. Erskine Clarke analyses the complex motivations of both the white minister and the enslaved (and free) African Americans who joined their churches while struggling to retain elements of their own religious practices. The section on Liberty County focuses on the work of Dr. Charles Colcock Jones, whose life is also detailed in Myers’ “The Children of Pride” and Dr. Clarke’s own classic “Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic.”
