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In 1526 a group of African slaves, with Native American help, revolted and escaped from a short-lived Spanish colony near the Pee Dee River on the South Carolina coast. Further south, on the Sea Island of St. Helena off the same coast, between Charleston and Savannah, Sam Doyle was born in 1906.
Sam Doyle grew up on Saint Helena Island, a remote South Carolina enclave populated mainly by the descendants of African slaves, who vastly outnumbered whites.
Sam Doyle was born near Frogmore, South Carolina, on St. Helena Island, a fairly remote place that for generations was traditionally a black island.
Doyle (1906-1985) grew up in St. Helena, and through his art, he chronicled the history and changes on the island—the landscape and culture, the island’s oral storytelling, and people from Jim Crow through the mid-century civil rights era and integration.
Sam Doyle (American, 1906 – 1985), a descendant of slaves, was a folk artist born on the island of St. Helena off the coast of South Carolina. He is best-known for his portraits done with house paint on salvaged wood and roofing tin that depict significant figures and moments in Gullah history.
Sam Doyle attended Penn School—founded in 1862 to teach skills to newly liberated slaves near the Sea Islands off South Carolina. It was during his years there that he first received encouragement for his art. Yet, he chose to remain on the island of his birth, St. Helena, and worked...
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Sam Doyle was a native of the island of St. -Helena, off the South Carolina coast. Discovered about 1520, St. Helena was occupied by the Spanish, French, and English until the American Revolution.
