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Book Ukweli

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  • Author : Horace Mungin
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2022-02
  • ISBN : 9781929647699
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book Ukweli written by Horace Mungin and published by . This book was released on 2022-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ukweli: Searching for Healing Truth, South Carolina Writers and Poets Explore American Racism educates White Americans about systematic racial bias employed to stymie African American progress.Forty-five writers and poets provide insight into the struggles Black people have faced as they've made substantial contributions to America and helped to define its soul.Ukweli presents personal truths learned about race relations in this country to show a part of American history often overlooked or misunderstood.Ukweli is the Swahili word for truth. This book meets this moment in America as a healing truth to overcome the trauma of slavery and the decades of violence that followed it.This book was inspired by a poetry, lecture and dialogue series of the same name organized by poet Horace Mungin in 2020 at McLeod Plantation. Evening Post Books will release Ukweli in February 2022.

Book Charleston  A Good Life

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  • Author : Ned Brown
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2017-10-03
  • ISBN : 1628728426
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book Charleston A Good Life written by Ned Brown and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the legendary work of Slim Aarons, a photographic narrative tour of a beautiful, unique, historical city and the remarkable people who live there. Author Ned Brown kicks off the Good Life series with the story about what makes Charleston, South Carolina so desirable to its residents and the five million visitors who seek it out each year. This stunning coffee- table book features photographs by Gately Williams, whose work is regularly featured in Garden & Gun, Coastal Living, and other publications. With his signature ease, Brown profiles more than fifty “interesting Charlestonians, doing interesting things in a beautiful place.” Charleston: A Good Life highlights native Charlestonians and those who have made the southern Holy City their home during the past two decades. Some are wealthy, many not, but all enjoy the richness of a place that has been voted the best small city in the world by Travel + Leisure magazine.

Book Charleston  Charleston

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  • Author : Walter J. Fraser, Jr.
  • Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
  • Release : 2022-03-29
  • ISBN : 1643363344
  • Pages : 561 pages

Download or read book Charleston Charleston written by Walter J. Fraser, Jr. and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often called the most "Southern" of Southern cities, Charleston was one of the earliest urban centers in North America. It quickly became a boisterous, brawling sea city trading with distant ports, and later a capital of the Lowcountry plantations, a Southern cultural oasis, and a summer home for planters. In this city, the Civil War began. And now, in the twentieth century, its metropolitan area has evolved into a microcosm of "the military-industrial complex." This book records Charleston's development from 1670 and ends with an afterword on the effects of Hurricane Hugo in 1989, drawing with special care on information from every facet of the city's life—its people and institutions; its art and architecture; its recreational, social and intellectual life; its politics and city government. The most complete social, political, and cultural history of Charleston, this book is a treasure chest for historians and for anyone interested in delving into this lovely city, layer by layer.

Book Mosaic Quilts

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  • Author : Charleston Museum (Charleston, S.C.)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2002-01-01
  • ISBN : 9781928584087
  • Pages : 68 pages

Download or read book Mosaic Quilts written by Charleston Museum (Charleston, S.C.) and published by . This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The South Carolina Rice Plantation as Revealed in the Papers of Robert F  W  Allston

Download or read book The South Carolina Rice Plantation as Revealed in the Papers of Robert F W Allston written by Robert Francis Withers Allston and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reissue of The South Carolina Rice Plantation as Revealed in the Papers of Robert F.W. Allston makes available for a new generation of readers a firsthand look at one of South Carolinas most influential antebellum dynasties and the institutions of slavery and plantation agriculture upon which it was built. Often cited by historians, Robert F.W. Allstons letters, speeches, receipts, and ledger entries chronicle both the heyday of the rice industry and its precipitate crash during the Civil War. As Daniel C. Littlefield underscores in his introduction to the new edition, these papers are significant not only because of Allstons position at the apex of planter society but also because his views represented those of the rice planter elite.

Book The Politics of Taste in Antebellum Charleston

Download or read book The Politics of Taste in Antebellum Charleston written by Maurie D. McInnis and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the close of the American Revolution, Charleston, South Carolina, was the wealthiest city in the new nation, with the highest per-capita wealth among whites and the largest number of enslaved residents. Maurie D. McInnis explores the social, political, and material culture of the city to learn how--and at what human cost--Charleston came to be regarded as one of the most refined cities in antebellum America. While other cities embraced a culture of democracy and egalitarianism, wealthy Charlestonians cherished English notions of aristocracy and refinement, defending slavery as a social good and encouraging the growth of southern nationalism. Members of the city's merchant-planter class held tight to the belief that the clothes they wore, the manners they adopted, and the ways they designed house lots and laid out city streets helped secure their place in social hierarchies of class and race. This pursuit of refinement, McInnis demonstrates, was bound up with their determined efforts to control the city's African American majority. She then examines slave dress, mobility, work spaces, and leisure activities to understand how Charleston slaves negotiated their lives among the whites they served. The textures of lives lived in houses, yards, streets, and public spaces come into dramatic focus in this lavishly illustrated portrait of antebellum Charleston. McInnis's innovative history of the city combines the aspirations of its would-be nobility, the labors of the African slaves who built and tended the town, and the ambitions of its architects, painters, writers, and civic promoters.

Book A Talent for Living

Download or read book A Talent for Living written by Barbara L. Bellows and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2006-06-21 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bellows has produced the first biography of this very private woman and emotionally complex writer, whose life story is also the history of a place and time - Charleston in the first half of the twentieth century.".

Book Original Papers Relating to the Siege of Charleston  1780

Download or read book Original Papers Relating to the Siege of Charleston 1780 written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book 350 Facts about Charleston

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  • Author : Andy Brack
  • Publisher : City Paper Press
  • Release : 2020-09
  • ISBN : 9781952248054
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book 350 Facts about Charleston written by Andy Brack and published by City Paper Press. This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Carolina s Lost Colony

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  • Author : Peter N. Moore
  • Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
  • Release : 2022-12-01
  • ISBN : 164336362X
  • Pages : 198 pages

Download or read book Carolina s Lost Colony written by Peter N. Moore and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2022-12-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the dual Scottish–Yamasee colonization of Port Royal Those interested in the early colonial history of South Carolina and the southeastern borderlands will find much to discover in Carolina's Lost Colony in which historian Peter N. Moore examines the dual colonization of Port Royal at the end of the seventeenth century. From the east came Scottish Covenanters, who established the small outpost of Stuarts Town. Meanwhile, the Yamasee arrived from the south and west. These European and Indigenous colonizers made common cause as they sought to rival the English settlement of Charles Town to the north and the Spanish settlement of St. Augustine to the south. Also present were smaller Indigenous communities that had long populated the Atlantic sea islands. It is a global story whose particulars played out along a small piece of the Carolina coast. Religious idealism and commercial realities came to a head as the Scottish settlers made informal alliances with the Yamasee and helped to reinvigorate the Indian slave trade—setting in motion a series of events that transformed the region into a powder keg of colonial ambitions, unleashing a chain of hostilities, realignments, displacement, and destruction that forever altered the region.

Book A Politician Turned General

Download or read book A Politician Turned General written by Jeffrey Norman Lash and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Politician Turned General offers a critical examination of the turbulent early political career and the controversial military service of Stephen Augustus Hurlbut, an Illinois Whig. Republican politician, and Northern political general who rose to distinction as a prominent member of the Union high command in the West during the Civil War. Though traditionally there are two different characterizations of those who exercised command during the Civil War - soldier-politician and the political generals - Hurlbut was viewed as a military politician. This book provides an important study of another friend and/or political supporter of Lincoln who rose to general during the war and gained important appointments after the war. This first biography of Hurlbut chronicles the early life and the Civil War career of one of Abraham Lincoln's foremost military appointments. Through exhaustive research of primary and secondary sources, author Jeffrey N. Lash identifies and evaluates the successes and failures of Hurlbut's generalship and combat leadership, both as a field commander in Missouri in 1861 and as a division commander at the Battles of Shiloh and Hatchie Bridge in 1862. Featuri

Book Renaissance in Charleston

Download or read book Renaissance in Charleston written by James M. Hutchisson and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The essays tell how these and other individuals faced the tensions and contradictions of their time and place. While some traced their lineage back to the city's first families, others were relative newcomers. Some broke new ground racially and sexually as well as artistically; others perpetuated the myths of the Old South. Some were censured at home but praised in New York, London, and Paris. The essays also underscore the significance and growth of such cultural institutions as the Poetry Society of South Carolina, the Charleston Museum, and the Gibbes Art Gallery."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Newspaper Preservation Act

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  • Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 5
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1969
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 548 pages

Download or read book Newspaper Preservation Act written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 5 and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Newspaper Preservation Act

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  • Author : United States. Congress. House. Judiciary Committee
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1969
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 556 pages

Download or read book Newspaper Preservation Act written by United States. Congress. House. Judiciary Committee and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Newspaper Preservation Act

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  • Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1969
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 584 pages

Download or read book Newspaper Preservation Act written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book 101 Women Who Shaped South Carolina

Download or read book 101 Women Who Shaped South Carolina written by Valinda W. Littlefield and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prior to the twenty-first century, most historical writing about women in South Carolina focused on elite White women, even though working-class women of diverse backgrounds were actively engaged in the social, economic, and political battles of the state. Although often unrecognized publicly, they influenced cultural and political landscapes both within and outside of the state's borders through their careers, writing, art, music, and activism. Despite significant cultural, social, and political barriers, these brave and determined women affected sweeping change that advanced the position of women as well as their communities. The entries in 101 Women Who Shaped South Carolina, which include many from the landmark text The South Carolina Encyclopedia, offer a concise and approachable history of the state, while recognizing the sacrifice, persistence, and sheer grit of its heroines and history makers. A foreword is provided by Walter Edgar, Neuffer Professor of Southern Studies Emeritus and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at the University of South Carolina.

Book Index to Records of Ante Bellum Southern Plantations

Download or read book Index to Records of Ante Bellum Southern Plantations written by Jean L. Cooper and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-10-21 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed for both professional and amateur genealogists and other researchers, this index provides a detailed guide to materials available in the extensive Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations microfilm set. By using this index to identify specific collections in which materials pertinent to a specific family name, plantation name, or location may be found, and then reviewing the details in the appropriate Guides (see Preface), the researcher may pinpoint the location of desired materials. The items indexed include deeds, wills, estate papers, genealogies, personal and business correspondence, account books, slave lists, and many other types of records. This new edition also includes a list of all of the manuscript collections included in the microfilm set.