Ambrose Gonzales was born in Colleton County, South Carolina. He founded the State newspaper with his brother in 1891.
Selected Bibliography
The Black Border, 1922 With Aesop Along the Black Border, 1924 The Captain: Stories of the Black Border, 1924
Laguerre, A Gascon of the Black Border, 1924
Biography
Ambrose Gonzales was born in Colleton County, South Carolina, on May 29, 1857. After various jobs as a telegraph operator, Gonzales returned to South Carolina and began working as a traveling correspondent for the News and Courier, a Charleston newspaper. In 1891, Gonzales and his brother began to publish the State in Columbia, South Carolina. The paper was popular with liberal people as topics including opposition to lynching, demand for better schools, and need for child-labor laws filled its pages. Gonzales served as both president and publisher for this paper. Although suffering from a stroke in 1922, Gonzales at this time began his works on Gullah folktales of the South Carolina low country written in the Gullah dialect. Gonzales' work on Gullah folktales is considered one of the few accurate studies of the Gullah dialect. Gonzales died on July 11, 1926.
