Buy the Book
Swift Currents
by
David Bruce Grim
Published: 6/9/2014
ISBN: 978-1-49173-394-3
Dedication of "Swift Currents"
– Ronald Daise, Cultural Preservationist.
Charter member of the Sea Island Translation Team and Literacy Project.
Former chairman of the Federal Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission.
“The Sea Island community surrounding Beaufort, South Carolina, served as a center of historical action and events during our country’s Civil War and Reconstruction Period. Iconic historical figures, families of southern planters, and emancipated enslaved Africans were involved in the Port Royal Experiment on the land and surrounding waterways."
"In Swift Currents, David Grim introduces readers to powerful figures who came to the region to make significant contributions: Harriet Tubman, Laura Towne, Clara Barton, Charlotte Forten, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Robert Smalls, and Robert Gould Shaw. His story seamlessly interweaves fictional characters with nonfictional events and individuals to document the unique Gullah culture and language. Grim conveys history through the point-of-view of a people whose perspectives of family, racial justice, and freedom have rarely been shared in literature.”
Local bookstores in beautiful Beaufort, South Carolina are backers of this home-grown, historical fiction. They’ve supported us so we support them.
Please visit The Red Piano Too, McIntosh Book Shoppe, and the Beaufort Book Store and show them some love!
The Red Piano Too
Red Piano Too Located on St. Helena Island, Highway 21 South, just 10 minutes from downtown Beaufort, SC.
870 Sea Island Pkwy St. Helena, SC 29920 Facebook.com/Red-Piano-Too-Art-Gallery
McIntosh Book Shoppe
Beaufort Bookstore
We know you’ll leave here with the perfect book.
BeaufortBooksSC.com/contact-us
(843) 525-1066