...This chapter follows the call of Ammerman (1997) and Warner (1997) to redirect congregational studies toward a focus on “interaction” and “practice”. It specifically examines the attempted merger of two South Carolina Baptist congregations, one black and one white. In addition, the worship...

...This chapter presents the text of George Gershwin's letter to his childhood friend Emily Paley in 1933. In this letter, Gershwin informed Paley about his trip to South Carolina and his composition for a new opera. This chapter suggests that this poignant letter revealed a relaxed, content...

... in the wake of the 1954 Brown decision. Such tensions reveal how Southern Baptists and Methodists negotiated the heightened antagonism emerging between denominational leaders and the people in the pews over civil rights in the mid-1950s. The chapter opens with South Carolina Southern Baptist...

... of the South The Cash Myrdal Gunnar Lost Cause Reconstruction American Creed Fifteenth Amendment Thirteenth Amendment United States Supreme Court President’s Committee on Civil Rights Southern Regional Council Tilly Dorothy Isaac Woodard, Jr. Charleston, South Carolina Jim Crow Justice An American...

... of Education for Clarendon County Lighthouse and Informer McCray John H Omega Psi Phi Mays Benjamin White Walter Clark Septima Young Women’s Christian Association YWCA National Lawyers Guild Omega Psi Phi Septima Clark Clarendon County, South Carolina Separate-but-equal James Hinton served...

...This chapter explores educational initiatives for citizen science developed by the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology Maritime Research Division (SCIAA MRD). In 2018, the MRD implemented in-classroom visits to underserved school districts throughout the state. Focused on past...

... against Mexico and South Carolina secession, and advocating Cuban annexation. Poinsett’s stance on these issues continued to defy what one would expect from a typical “southerner,” “expansionist,” or “Democrat.” Although Poinsett ultimately failed to prevent war against Mexico or southern secession...

... of Africans in these regions. This chapter also explores the southern region of Carolina, giving a history of the development of North Carolina and South Carolina, while highlighting their respective response to intermixture. Initially, both colonies did not prohibit intermixture and the numbers of mixed...

...London, an enslaved coachman is abused by Tom Bale, an enslaver. Bale is injured. Bale family pseudonym Bale Mrs Octavia Tom Ben Uncle London Black Jim Ceasar Sancho Charleston South Carolina Confederacy “Are We Yet Alive” hymn Christianity hymns malaria singing Violence Horses South...

... Labor Camp Civil War Enslavers South Carolina “Let us have peace.” ¹ 1 General Ulysses S. Grant’s campaign slogan of 1868 was “let us have peace.” It was late in the Fall of 1865 that Mr. Ward was on his way to join his family. As soon as possible after the surrender at Richmond, he...

..., the Landrums of Edgefield, South Carolina, initiated ambitious innovations in their potteries in the backcountry. The innovation and development of alkaline-glazed stoneware pottery in America was introduced by these potteries in the nineteenth century. They employed enslaved African American laborers...

... archive that emerged around Lavinia Baker and her five children, all of whom survived the 1898 Lake City, South Carolina lynching and unfurling W. E. B. Du Bois's creative efforts in The Crisis to document lynching as an enduring violation that disrupts photography's ontology. Black Arts Movement black...

...The author describes interviewing one of the first narrators after they surfed together at Folly Beach, near Charleston, South Carolina. The introduction maps out the author’s journey and the goal of the book to chronicle the history of southern surfing. California Charleston S C Folly Beach S C...

... from multiple vantage points as the March moves across Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina. Atlanta Ga Sherman William Tecumseh Southern civilians Augusta Ga Blair Francis Preston Jr Calhoun James Davis Jefferson C Union general Hood John Bell Howard Oliver O Kilpatrick Judson Left...

...This chapter discusses Francis Nicholson's arrival in Charleston in the spring of 1721 to take over as the first royal governor of South Carolina. An old hand at colonial administration—since 1686 he had seen service as governor or acting governor of New York, Virginia, Maryland, and Nova Scotia...

... went into the Confederate army. In 1862, he married Margaret Cornelia Pelot at Greenwood, South Carolina. They were Charles P. Summerall's parents. Charles was born March 4, 1867. His sister, Meta Margaret Ann, was born on July 4, 1863. His brother, William Bryant, was born April 29, 1865. Civil War...

...By August 1930, Simkins's life had become stable. He now had a wife and steady employment. By this time, too, he had settled into patterns he would follow for the rest of his life. Farmville, a place reminiscent of Edgefield, would become the center of his life and South Carolina history the focus...

...This chapter takes into account challenges in establishing colonial Georgia and the role of South Carolina in its shaping. The English in Georgia were assisted with material aid and advice by the prosperous people of South Carolina from across the Savannah River. This chapter highlights...

...This introductory chapter first sets out the book's purpose, which is to examine the deep connections between two vastly different tourist sites in South Carolina—the South of the Border complex and the historically black town of Atlantic Beach. The book explores the interplay between politics...

...This chapter traces development of South Carolina’s tourism industry. The first indications that South Carolina may become a tourist state emerged in 1945, when the newly formed State Research, Planning, and Development Board began advertising in national publications. Tourism became an industry...