The second part of our interview with Mr. Griffin Lotson brings us to our final episode of season two. Mr. Lotson continues his story about Kumbaya. Works discussed: Drums and Shadows: Survival Studies Among the Georgia Coastal Negroes and its connection to Mr. Lotson’s story about Kumbaya as well as the infamous Old Man Thorpe father to my third great grandmother Ethel “Effie” Proctor. He also shares how he became the manager of the nationally acclaimed Geechee Gullah Ring Shouters.  Music in this episode is courtesy of the Free Music Archive from Makaih Beats “Reflection” (licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License) and Tlebi by Noura Mint Seymali is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.  'Come by Here,' aka 'Kumbaya sung by H. Wylie. Recorded by Robert Winslow Gordon in 1926 (courtesy of The Library of Congress)Episode Image: Du Bois, W. E. B. The Georgia Negro Darien, McIntosh Co., Ga. Distribution of Negro inhabitants. Georgia Paris Darien France, ca. 1900. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2013650364/.

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