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In 1924, Sam McGowan tossed aside the social life he was leading in Charleston, South Carolina, and took the post as the only rural mail carrier at Frogmore on St. Helena Island. Charleston's social activities, mandated by his birthright, proved to be a bit dull for an adventurous man like Sam. Instead, he took his new French bride and moved to a locale inhabited by five thousand Gullah-speaking African-Americans who were only one or two generations away from slavery. The majority of these island natives had never left the confines of St. Helena. For the next thirty-one years, he was entrusted with their secrets, joys and sorrows. To Sam, Charleston was a distant memory.McGowan, Pierre is the author of 'Gullah Mailman' with ISBN 9781571971999 and ISBN 1571971998.
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