A Country Boy From Sumter County South Carolina

Author : Coach Harry L. Fulwood Sr.
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781499075373

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A Country Boy from Sumter County, South Carolina by Coach Harry L. Fulwood Sr. Pdf

I wrote this book to share my life story. I was prompted into writing this book because of so many people that heard me as a guest speaker, me telling different people real-life stories about myself, my stories about my twenty-two months in the army, and my coworkers and many of my former students telling me that I should be putting my stories and experiences in a book. So I decided to write it. For those of you that know me well and those that don’t know as well, you will find this book to be very interesting, downright hilarious, very entertaining, and thought-provoking. I believe you will have so much fun reading it while you laugh.

Author : Michael P. Johnson,James L. Roark
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1986-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393245486

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Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South by Michael P. Johnson,James L. Roark Pdf

"A remarkably fine work of creative scholarship." —C. Vann Woodward, New York Review of Books In 1860, when four million African Americans were enslaved, a quarter-million others, including William Ellison, were "free people of color." But Ellison was remarkable. Born a slave, his experience spans the history of the South from George Washington and Thomas Jefferson to Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis. In a day when most Americans, black and white, worked the soil, barely scraping together a living, Ellison was a cotton-gin maker—a master craftsman. When nearly all free blacks were destitute, Ellison was wealthy and well-established. He owned a large plantation and more slaves than all but the richest white planters. While Ellison was exceptional in many respects, the story of his life sheds light on the collective experience of African Americans in the antebellum South to whom he remained bound by race. His family history emphasizes the fine line separating freedom from slavery.

Author : William A. Kretzschmar,William A. Kretzschmar Jr.
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1993-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0226452832

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Handbook of the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States by William A. Kretzschmar,William A. Kretzschmar Jr. Pdf

Who uses "skeeter hawk," "snake doctor," and "dragonfly" to refer to the same insect? Who says "gum band" instead of "rubber band"? The answers can be found in the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States (LAMSAS), the largest single survey of regional and social differences in spoken American English. It covers the region from New York state to northern Florida and from the coastline to the borders of Ohio and Kentucky. Through interviews with nearly twelve hundred people conducted during the 1930s and 1940s, the LAMSAS mapped regional variations in vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation at a time when population movements were more limited than they are today, thus providing a unique look at the correspondence of language and settlement patterns. This handbook is an essential guide to the LAMSAS project, laying out its history and describing its scope and methodology. In addition, the handbook reveals biographical information about the informants and social histories of the communities in which they lived, including primary settlement areas of the original colonies. Dialectologists will rely on it for understanding the LAMSAS, and historians will find it valuable for its original historical research. Since much of the LAMSAS questionnaire concerns rural terms, the data collected from the interviews can pinpoint such language differences as those between areas of plantation and small-farm agriculture. For example, LAMSAS reveals that two waves of settlement through the Appalachians created two distinct speech types. Settlers coming into Georgia and other parts of the Upper South through the Shenandoah Valley and on to the western side of the mountain range had a Pennsylvania-influenced dialect, and were typically small farmers. Those who settled the Deep South in the rich lowlands and plateaus tended to be plantation farmers from Virginia and the Carolinas who retained the vocabulary and speech patterns of coastal areas. With these revealing findings, the LAMSAS represents a benchmark study of the English language, and this handbook is an indispensable guide to its riches.

Author : James J. Pitts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Soil surveys
ISBN : UCR:31210008657056

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Soil Survey of Florence and Sumter Counties, South Carolina by James J. Pitts Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781643361574

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A Guidebook to South Carolina Historical Markers by Anonim Pdf

The South Carolina Historical Marker Program, established in 1936, has approved the installation of more than 1,700 interpretive plaques, each highlighting how places both grand and unassuming have played important roles in the history of the Palmetto State. These roadside markers identify and interpret places valuable for understanding South Carolina's past, including sites of consequential events and buildings, structures, or other resources significant for their design or their association with institutions or individuals prominent in local, state, or national history. This volume includes a concise history of the South Carolina Historical Marker Program and an overview of the marker application process. For those interested in specific historic periods or themes, the volume features condensed lists of markers associated with broader topics such as the American Revolution, African American history, women's history, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. While the program is administered by the South Carolina Department of Archives and History, most markers are proposed by local organizations that serve as a marker's official sponsor, paying its cost and assuming responsibility for its upkeep. In that sense, this inventory is a record not just of places and subjects that the state has deemed worthy of acknowledgment, but of those that South Carolinians themselves have worked to enshrine.

Author : Federal Writers' Project
Publisher : Trinity University Press
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781595342386

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The WPA Guide to South Carolina by Federal Writers' Project Pdf

During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authors—many of whom would later become celebrated literary figures—were commissioned to write these important books. John Steinbeck, Saul Bellow, Zora Neale Hurston, and Ralph Ellison are among the more than 6,000 writers, editors, historians, and researchers who documented this celebration of local histories. Photographs, drawings, driving tours, detailed descriptions of towns, and rich cultural details exhibit each state’s unique flavor. The WPA Guide to South Carolina presents a state at the epicenter of Southern culture. The Palmetto State’s guide comes complete with the standard driving tours across the Blue Ridge Mountains and Mid-Atlantic coast as well as recipes for delicacies such has Cracklin’ Bread and Peach Leather.

Author : South Carolina Medical Association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044103122602

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Journal of the South Carolina Medical Association by South Carolina Medical Association Pdf

Author : Charles Sarver
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1407714090

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The Country Boy by Charles Sarver Pdf

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Author : Russ Offutt
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781477243749

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Flight 27 Alpha by Russ Offutt Pdf

Flight 27 Alpha is the compelling story of two men, father and son, tragically separated by an incident officially termed as an unexplained military accident. Father and son were brought together again 50 years in the future. Follow Captain Robert E. Hayes, the father from World War II in 1943 and General Robert E. Hayes Jr., the son from 1993 as they meet face to face once again, this time, in a very unusual way and get to know one another in a bizarre twist of fate that cannot be explained. With the help of a military historian, and their attempt to challenge what appears to be the impossible, father and son, along with the military historian, devise and attempt to carry out a mission that, if successful, would utilize the technology of 1993 on an aircraft from 1943 and alter the course of World War II and thereby save millions of lives in the process. In the end, follow four generations of Hayes men as they love and honor one another over a span of 68 years, Lieutenant Berry Hayes, World War I Curtiss H-16 bomber pilot, great grandfather, Captain Robert E. Hayes, World War II B-17G Flying Fortress pilot, grandfather, General Robert E. Hayes, Jr., Vietnam Veteran F-4B pilot, father and Lieutenant Colonel Edward Berry Hayes, F-16 Fighting Falcon, great grandson, grandson and son.

Author : Goodspeed Publishing Co
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1120 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Arkansas
ISBN : WISC:89082554643

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Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Southern Arkansas by Goodspeed Publishing Co Pdf

A condensed history of the state, a number of biographies of its distinguished citizens, a brief descriptive history of each of the counties mentioned, and numerous biographical sketches of the citizens of such county.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781643364308

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South Carolina by Anonim Pdf

The Federal Writers Project creates an image of South Carolina of years past All of us, at one time or another, have had a strong desire to be able to get into a time machine and be transported magically to an earlier place and time. Science has not yet produced for us such a time machine, but the Federal Writers Project (FWP), a division of the Works Progress Administration, did produce for prosperity guides to all of the old 48 states. Using talented local researchers and writers the FWP created an image of America fifty plus years ago. A reprint of the original, South Carolina: The WPA Guide to the Palmetto State is divided into three sections: 19 essays on a variety of topics ranging from history to cookery; detailed descriptions of the 11 towns in the state that had populations of more than 10,000; and 21 remarkably detailed guided tours to all sections of the state. In addition to the original chapters, there are two appendices—updated highway numbers for each tour and a guide to getting off the present Interstate Highway System and picking up the guided tours. South Carolina's Guide is very much a product of its times. The essays and tours mince no words in describing the state's poverty or the reality of a world in which class and race played major roles. For those who have studied and taught South Carolina history, the old Guide has been an indispensable reference work. Parts of it may be dated to some jaded modern eyes; some phrases may be jarring to the post-1954 generation. However, the original South Carolina: The WPA Guide to the Palmetto State was what its cover claimed it to be. It accurately described the state as it was—not as romantics wanted it to be.

Author : Damon L. Fordham
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781625842992

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Voices of Black South Carolina by Damon L. Fordham Pdf

Did you know that eighty-eight years before Rosa Parks’s historic protest, a courageous black woman in Charleston kept her seat on a segregated streetcar? What about Robert Smalls, who steered a Confederate warship into Union waters, freeing himself and some of his family, and later served in the South Carolina state legislature? In this inspiring collection, historian Damon L. Fordham relates story after story of notable black South Carolinians, many of whose contributions to the state’s history have not been brought to light until now. From the letters of black soldiers during the Civil War to the impassioned pleas by students of “Munro’s School” for their right to an education, these are the voices of protest and dissent, the voices of hope and encouragement and the voices of progress.

Author : Susanna Ashton
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781611171679

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I Belong to South Carolina by Susanna Ashton Pdf

Out of the hundreds of published slave narratives,only a handful exist specific to South Carolina, and most of these are not readily available to modern readers. Edited by Susanna Ashton, this collection restores to print seven slave narratives documenting the lived realities of slavery as it existed across the Palmetto State's upcountry, midlands, and lowcountry, from plantation culture to urban servitude. First published between the late eighteenth century and the dawn of the twentieth, these richly detailed firsthand accounts present a representative cross section of slave experiences, from religious awakenings and artisan apprenticeships to sexual exploitations and harrowing escapes. In their distinctive individual voices, narrators celebrate and mourn the lives of fellow slaves, contemplate the meaning of freedom, and share insights into the social patterns and cultural controls exercised during a turbulent period in American history. Each narrative is preceded by an introduction to place its content and publication history in historical context. The volume also features an afterword surveying other significant slave narratives and related historical documents on South Carolina. I Belong to South Carolina reinserts a chorus of powerful voices of the dispossessed into South Carolina's public history, reminding us of the cruelties of the past and the need for vigilant guardianship of liberty in the present and future.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 904 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Florida
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036254378

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Biographical Souvenir of the States of Georgia and Florida by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Best Books on
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781623760397

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South Carolina: a guide to the Palmetto state by Anonim Pdf