Don't study war no more a line from "Down By the Riverside." Baby Suggs, an illiterate preacher, took her texts from Negro spirituals.
fixing ceremony the arrangement of a corpse for burial.
AMEs and Baptists, Holinesses and Sanctifieds black religious denominations. AMEs refers to the African Methodist Episcopal church, founded in New York City in 1801 by Richard Allen.
buckeyes the seeds of any of various trees of the horse-chestnut family.
flatbed a flat-bottomed skiff.
hutch a hut.
juniper any of a genus of evergreen shrubs or trees of the cypress family, with needlelike or scalelike foliage, aromatic wood, and berrylike cones that yield an oil used for flavoring gin and formerly in medicine.
rind a piece of pork skin, traditional southern style seasoning for green beans.
raised bread yeast bread.
four o'clocks any of a genus of chiefly American annual or perennial herbs, esp. a garden plant with fragrant yellow, red, or white flowers opening late in the afternoon.
