The History Of Beaufort County South Carolina 1514 1861

Author : Lawrence S. Rowland,Alexander Moore,George C. Rogers, Jr.
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781643361635

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The History of Beaufort County, South Carolina by Lawrence S. Rowland,Alexander Moore,George C. Rogers, Jr. Pdf

The complex, colorful history of South Carolina's southeastern corner In the first volume of The History of Beaufort County, South Carolina, three distinguished historians of the Palmetto State recount more than three centuries of Spanish and French exploration, English and Huguenot agriculture, and African slave labor as they trace the history of one of North America's oldest European settlements. From the sixteenth-century forays of the Spaniards to the invasion of Union forces in 1861, Lawrence S. Rowland, Alexander Moore, and George C. Rogers, Jr., chronicle the settlement and development of the geographical region comprised of what is now Beaufort, Jasper, Hampton, and part of Allendale counties. The authors describe the ill-fated attempts of the Spanish and French to settle the Port Royal Sound area and the arrival of the British in 1663, which established the Beaufort District as the southern frontier of English North America. They tell of the region's bloody Indian Wars, participation in the American Revolution, and golden age of prosperity and influence following the introduction of Sea Island cotton. In charting the approach of civil war, Rowland, Moore, and Rogers relate Beaufort District's decisive role in the Nullification Crisis and in the cultivation, by some of the district's native sons, of South Carolina's secessionist movement. Of particular interest, they profile the local African American, or Gullah, population - a community that has become well known for the retention of its African cultural and linguistic heritage.

Author : Lawrence Sanders Rowland,Alexander Moore,George C. Rogers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Beaufort County (S.C.)
ISBN : OCLC:39653827

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The History of Beaufort County, South Carolina by Lawrence Sanders Rowland,Alexander Moore,George C. Rogers Pdf

Manuscript for first volume (published 1996) of history of Beaufort County, S.C., discussing period ca. 1514-1861; including editorial suggestions and correspondence.

Author : Lawrence Sanders Rowland,Stephen R. Wise,George C. Rogers (Jr.),Gerhard Spieler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1611175453

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The History of Beaufort County, South Carolina: Bridging the Sea Islands' past and present, 1893-2006 by Lawrence Sanders Rowland,Stephen R. Wise,George C. Rogers (Jr.),Gerhard Spieler Pdf

The history of Beaufort County, South Carolina, before, during, and just after, the twentieth century

Author : Stephen R. Wise,Lawrence S. Rowland
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781643362823

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Rebellion, Reconstruction, and Redemption, 1861–1893 by Stephen R. Wise,Lawrence S. Rowland Pdf

The continued history of Beaufort County, South Carolina, during and following the Civil War In Rebellion, Reconstruction, and Redemption, 1861-1893, the second of three volumes on the history of Beaufort County, Stephen R. Wise and Lawrence S. Rowland offer details about the district from 1861 to 1893, which influenced the development of the South Carolina and the nation. During a span of thirty years the region was transformed by the crucible of war from a wealthy, slave-based white oligarchy to a county where former slaves dominated a new, radically democratic political economy. This volume begins where volume I concluded, the November 1861 Union capture and occupation of the Sea Islands clustered around Port Royal Sound, and the Confederate retreat and re-entrenchment on Beaufort District's mainland, where they fended off federal attacks for three and a half years and vainly attempted to maintain their pre-war life. In addition to chronicling numerous military actions that revolutionized warfare, Wise and Rowland offer an original, sophisticated study of the famous Port Royal Experiment in which United States military officers, government officials, civilian northerners, African American soldiers, and liberated slaves transformed the Union-occupied corner of the Palmetto State into a laboratory for liberty and a working model of the post-Civil War New South. The revolution wrought by Union victory and the political and social Reconstruction of South Carolina was followed by a counterrevolution called Redemption, the organized campaign of Southern whites, defeated in the war, to regain supremacy over African Americans. While former slave-owning, anti-black "Redeemers" took control of mainland Beaufort County, they were thwarted on the Sea Islands, where African Americans retained power and kept reaction at bay. By 1893, elements of both the New and Old South coexisted uneasily side by side as the old Beaufort District was divided into Beaufort and Hampton counties. The Democratic mainland reverted to an agricultural-based economy while the Republican Sea Islands and the town of Beaufort underwent an economic boom based on the phosphate mining industry and the new commercial port in the lowcountry town of Port Royal.

Author : Cate Lineberry
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781250101877

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Be Free or Die: The Amazing Story of Robert Smalls' Escape from Slavery to Union Hero by Cate Lineberry Pdf

***Finalist for the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize*** Henry Louis Gates, Jr: "A stunning tale of a little-known figure in history." Candice Millard: “Be Free or Die makes you want to stand up and cheer.” The astonishing true story of Robert Smalls’ amazing journey from slave to Union hero and ultimately United States Congressman. It was a mild May morning in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1862, the second year of the Civil War, when a twenty-three-year-old slave named Robert Smalls did the unthinkable and boldly seized a Confederate steamer. With his wife and two young children hidden on board, Smalls and a small crew ran a gauntlet of heavily armed fortifications in Charleston Harbor and delivered the valuable vessel and the massive guns it carried to nearby Union forces. To be unsuccessful was a death sentence for all. Smalls’ courageous and ingenious act freed him and his family from slavery and immediately made him a Union hero while simultaneously challenging much of the country’s view of what African Americans were willing to do to gain their freedom. After his escape, Smalls served in numerous naval campaigns off Charleston as a civilian boat pilot and eventually became the first black captain of an Army ship. In a particularly poignant moment Smalls even bought the home that he and his mother had once served in as house slaves. Cate Lineberry's Be Free or Die is a compelling narrative that illuminates Robert Smalls’ amazing journey from slave to Union hero and ultimately United States Congressman. This captivating tale of a valuable figure in American history gives fascinating insight into the country's first efforts to help newly freed slaves while also illustrating the many struggles and achievements of African Americans during the Civil War.

Author : Lawrence Sanders Rowland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1570030901

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1514-1861 by Lawrence Sanders Rowland Pdf

Author : Ron Roth
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476638362

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The Civil War in the South Carolina Lowcountry by Ron Roth Pdf

Some of the most dramatic and consequential events of the Civil War era took place in the South Carolina Lowcountry between Charleston and Savannah. From Robert Barnwell Rhett's inflammatory 1844 speech in Bluffton calling for secession, to the last desperate attempts by Confederate forces to halt Sherman's juggernaut, the region was torn apart by war. This history tells the story through the experiences of two radically different military units--the Confederate Beaufort Volunteer Artillery and the U.S. 1st South Carolina Regiment, the first black Union regiment to fight in the war--both organized in Beaufort, the heart of the Lowcountry.

Author : Karen Lynn Allen
Publisher : Cabbages and Kings Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780967178417

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Beaufort 1849 by Karen Lynn Allen Pdf

After years abroad, Jasper Wainwright returns to Beaufort, South Carolina, home of his unruly youth. Slavery and Sea Island cotton have made this summer seat of plantation owners one of the wealthiest and most cultured cities in America . . . and also the most hotheaded, secessionist city in the South. Jasper's cousin, Henry Birch, wants him to marry his niece, Cara, a pianist and the prettiest girl in the county. Believing slavery doomed, Jasper has no desire to settle in the South again and so resists both Henry's matchmaking and his growing fascination with Cara. Then anonymous letters in The Charleston Courier give Jasper an inkling that maybe the South could change. Though his freed slave, Jim, who travels with him, is antsy to leave, Jasper lingers in Beaufort. Amid a whirl of parties, waltzes and duels, Cara is never far from his eyes or his thoughts. As cries for secession grow louder, Jasper works desperately to convince Beaufort planters that gradual emancipation and transition to a wage-based economy could avert the coming storm of war. Will Beaufort be another Pompeii, its civilization disappearing in a cataclysm it refuses to foresee?

Author : Dwayne W. Pickett
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439667279

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Captain William Hilton and the Founding of Hilton Head Island by Dwayne W. Pickett Pdf

Author Dwayne W. Pickett details the life of William Hilton, his exploration of the Carolina coast and the founding of an iconic island. Behind the pristine beaches and world renown of Hilton Head Island lies a history that dates back to the early exploration of the nation. In 1663, William Hilton, a mariner born in England, was hired by a group in Barbados to find new lands for them to settle. Hilton led an exploration of the Port Royal Sound area, where he named a high bluff of land Hiltons Head as a navigational marker for future sailors. The island began as a sparsely populated area on the fringe of English settlement in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, when it was called Trench's Island on some maps.

Author : Walter Edgar
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611171518

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The South Carolina Encyclopedia Guide to the Counties of South Carolina by Walter Edgar Pdf

The South Carolina Encyclopedia Guide to South Carolina Counties documents the defining aspects of the forty-six counties that make up the state, from mountains to coast. Updated to include data from the 2010 census, these entries detail the historical, economic, political, and cultural character inherent in each location, noting major population centers, enterprises, and attractions. The guide also includes an appendix of entires on the state's original parishes and districts existing prior to alignment into the current counties. An introductory overview essay outlines the history and function of county development and authority in South Carolina. The resulting volume provides a concise guide to the state at the county level, from Abbeville to York.

Author : Walter B. Edgar
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 1570032556

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South Carolina by Walter B. Edgar Pdf

This is a chronicle of South Carolina describing in human terms 475 years of recorded history in the Palmetto State. Recounting the period from the first Spanish exploration to the end of the Civil War, the author charts South Carolina's rising national and international importance.

Author : Caroline Grego
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469671369

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Hurricane Jim Crow by Caroline Grego Pdf

On an August night in 1893, the deadliest hurricane in South Carolina history struck the Lowcountry, killing thousands—almost all African American. But the devastating storm is only the beginning of this story. The hurricane's long effects intermingled with ongoing processes of economic downturn, racial oppression, resistance, and environmental change. In the Lowcountry, the political, economic, and social conditions of Jim Crow were inextricable from its environmental dimensions. This narrative history of a monumental disaster and its aftermath uncovers how Black workers and politicians, white landowners and former enslavers, northern interlocutors and humanitarians all met on the flooded ground of the coast and fought to realize very different visions for the region's future. Through a telescoping series of narratives in which no one's actions were ever fully triumphant or utterly futile, Hurricane Jim Crow explores with nuance this painful and contradictory history and shows how environmental change, political repression, and communal traditions of resistance, survival, and care converged.

Author : Thomas L. Johnson,Nina J. Root
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780820324241

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Camera Man's Journey by Thomas L. Johnson,Nina J. Root Pdf

A collection of pictures of African Americans taken around Columbi.

Author : Josh Kinser
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781493078820

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Hiking South Carolina by Josh Kinser Pdf

Hiking South Carolina covers the best hiking throughout the entire state. This book has the reader traversing from the mountains to the sea in one of the most beautiful and diverse states in the US. No matter where you are in the state, it is likely that this book will have a trail for you to explore nearby. Detailed maps and trail descriptions make navigating these wonderful trails easy, and interesting information about the environment and history of each trail gives hikers a unique insight into the trail that they are exploring.

Author : James H. Tuten
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611172164

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Lowcountry Time and Tide by James H. Tuten Pdf

In mapping the slow decline of the rice kingdom across the half-century following the Civil War, James H. Tuten offers a provocative new vision of the forces—agricultural, environmental, economic, cultural, and climatic—stacked against planters, laborers, and millers struggling to perpetuate their once-lucrative industry through the challenging postbellum years and into the hardscrabble twentieth century. Concentrating his study on the vast rice plantations of the Heyward, Middleton, and Elliott families of South Carolina, Tuten narrates the ways in which rice producers—both the former grandees of the antebellum period and their newly freed slaves—sought to revive rice production. Both groups had much invested in the economic recovery of rice culture during Reconstruction and the beginning decades of the twentieth century. Despite all disadvantages, rice planting retained a perceived cultural mystique that led many to struggle with its farming long after the profits withered away. Planters tried a host of innovations, including labor contracts with former slaves, experiments in mechanization, consolidation of rice fields, and marketing cooperatives in their efforts to rekindle profits, but these attempts were thwarted by the insurmountable challenges of the postwar economy and a series of hurricanes that destroyed crops and the infrastructure necessary to sustain planting. Taken together, these obstacles ultimately sounded the death knell for the rice kingdom. The study opens with an overview of the history of rice culture in South Carolina through the Reconstruction era and then focuses on the industry's manifestations and decline from 1877 to 1930. Tuten offers a close study of changes in agricultural techniques and tools during the period and demonstrates how adaptive and progressive rice planters became despite their conservative reputations. He also explores the cultural history of rice both as a foodway and a symbol of wealth in the lowcountry, used on currency and bedposts. Tuten concludes with a thorough treatment of the lasting legacy of rice culture, especially in terms of the environment, the continuation of rice foodways and iconography, and the role of rice and rice plantations in the modern tourism industry.