The History of Georgetown County, South Carolina
Author | : George C. Rogers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 606 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
[December 2001]
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Author | : George C. Rogers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 606 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
[December 2001]
Author | : Ramona La Roche |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738503479 |
Located in one of the Palmetto State's most picturesque regions, Georgetown County is a beautiful coastal county full of rich African- American traditions and a distinct Gullah heritage, from its roots in the antebellum South to the present. An integral part of the identity of the Lowcountry, the black community has played a prominent role in the successful development of the county over the years, and this volume serves to highlight and celebrate the county's people and their achievements, highlighting recognizable citizens and families, both prominent and everyday.
Author | : George C. Rogers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 608 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
[December 2001]
Author | : Suzanne Cameron Linder Hurley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 879 |
Release | : 2001* |
Genre | : Georgetown County (S.C.) |
ISBN | : 9781880067567 |
Author | : Robert Mills |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : |
This reprint edition of MILLS' ATLAS has an especially prepared history and introduction to these maps as well as considerable history about Robert Mills, the man and architect, prepared be Mr. Gene Waddell, formerly Director of the South Carolina Historical Society, Charleston. These maps, originally 23 29 in size, have been conveniently reduced in size to 11 17 and folded to fit into an exquisitely gold-stamped simulated leather cover for book shelf or coffee table. The Districts for which maps are included are: Abbeville, Barnwell, Beaufort, Charleston, Chesterfield, Chester, Colleton, Darlington, Edgefield, Fairfield, Greenville, Georgetown, Horry, Kershaw, Lancaster, Laurens, Lexington, Marion, Marlborough, Newberry, Orangeburg, Pendleton, Richland, Spartanburg, Sumter, Union, Williamsburg and York.
Author | : Eric Sean Crawford |
Publisher | : Univ of South Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2021-07-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1643361910 |
In Gullah Spirituals musicologist Eric Crawford traces Gullah Geechee songs from their beginnings in West Africa to their height as songs for social change and Black identity in the twentieth century American South. While much has been done to study, preserve, and interpret Gullah culture in the lowcountry and sea islands of South Carolina and Georgia, some traditions like the shouting and rowing songs have been all but forgotten. This work, which focuses primarily on South Carolina's St. Helena Island, illuminates the remarkable history, survival, and influence of spirituals since the earliest recordings in the 1860s. Grounded in an oral tradition with a dynamic and evolving character, spirituals proved equally adaptable for use during social and political unrest and in unlikely circumstances. Most notably, the island's songs were used at the turn of the century to help rally support for the United States' involvement in World War I and to calm racial tensions between black and white soldiers. In the 1960s, civil rights activists adopted spirituals as freedom songs, though many were unaware of their connection to the island. Gullah Spirituals uses fieldwork, personal recordings, and oral interviews to build upon earlier studies and includes an appendix with more than fifty transcriptions of St. Helena spirituals, many no longer performed and more than half derived from Crawford's own transcriptions. Through this work, Crawford hopes to restore the cultural memory lost to time while tracing the long arc and historical significance of the St. Helena spirituals.
Author | : Georgetown County Historical Society. Front Street Project Committee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Georgetown (S.C.) |
ISBN | : 9780871525680 |
Author | : Shirley Ann Grau |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2012-04-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1453247203 |
A “beautifully written” Pulitzer Prize–winning novel about prejudice and a distinguished family’s secrets in the American South (The Atlantic Monthly). Seven generations of the Howland family have lived in the Alabama plantation home built by an ancestor who fought for Andrew Jackson in the War of 1812. Over the course of a century, the Howlands accumulated a fortune, fought for secession, and helped rebuild the South, establishing themselves as one of the most respected families in the state. But that history means little to Abigail Howland. The inheritor of the Howland manse, Abigail hides the long-buried secret of her grandfather’s thirty-year relationship with his African American mistress. Her fortunes reverse when her family’s mixed-race heritage comes to light and her community—locked in the prejudices of the 1960s—turns its back on her. Faced with such deep-seated racism, Abigail is pushed to defend her family at all costs. A “novel of real magnitude,” The Keepers of the House is an unforgettable story of family, tradition, and racial injustice set against the richly drawn backdrop of the American South (Kirkus Reviews). This ebook features an illustrated biography of Shirley Ann Grau, including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.
Author | : Benjamin N. Stuckey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Soil surveys |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Roy Talbert, Jr. |
Publisher | : Univ of South Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2014-12-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 161117421X |
The Antipedo Baptists of Georgetown, South Carolina, 1710–2010 is the history of the First Baptist Church of Georgetown, South Carolina, as well as the history of Baptists in the colony and state. Roy Talbert, Jr., and Meggan A. Farish detail Georgetown Baptists' long and tumultuous history, which began with the migration of Baptist exhorter William Screven from England to Maine and then to South Carolina during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Screven established the First Baptist Church in Charleston in the 1690s before moving to Georgetown in 1710. His son Elisha laid out the town in 1734 and helped found an interdenominational meeting house on the Black River, where the Baptists worshipped until a proper edifice was constructed in Georgetown: the Antipedo Baptist Church, named for the congregation's opposition to infant baptism. Three of the most recognized figures in southern Baptist history—Oliver Hart, Richard Furman, and Edmond Botsford—played vital roles in keeping the Georgetown church alive through the American Revolution. The nineteenth century was particularly trying for the Georgetown Baptists, and the church came very close to shutting its doors on several occasions. The authors reveal that for most of the nineteenth century a majority of church members were African American slaves. Not until World War II did Georgetown witness any real growth. Since then the congregation has blossomed into one of the largest churches in the convention and rightfully occupies an important place in the history of the Baptist denomination. The Antipedo Baptists of Georgetown is an invaluable contribution to southern religious history as well as the history of race relations before and after the Civil War in the American South.