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“Camp Weeth Pedro” Politics and Aesthetics Reshape the Borders of Taste at SOB
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P. Nicole King
Published: 15 February 2012
... South Carolina Cultural landscapes Schafer Alan South of the Border Tacky Taste Aesthetics Baltimore Maryland Dillon County Downs Joseph Insider outsider perspective Kirshenblatt Gimblett Barbara Newer South Race Artifacts Camp Grimstead David Kitsch New South Sentimentality Sturken...
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Published: 15 February 2012
... Discrimination Tourism advertisements Insider outsider perspective Souvenirs Atlantic Beach Atlantic Beach Historical Society ABHS Civil War Pedro’s Africa Shop Aesthetics Atlantic Beach Arts Renaissance ABaR Tacky South of the Border Atlantic Beach South Carolina tourist sites cultural history...
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That Province, Under God, Will Flourish
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Jessica M. Parr
Published: 01 March 2015
...When James Oglethorpe helped to found the Georgia colony in 1733, it served in part as a buffer between wealthy, slave owning South Carolina and Spanish Florida. As such, the ownership of African slaves was initially prohibited in the colony. In spite of his criticism of southern planters...
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Published: 17 June 2008
...This chapter explores the riot that occurred between the Charleston police and the International Longshoremen Association (ILA) on January 19, 2000, in Charleston, South Carolina. It explains that the protests erupted due to the breaking of the 22-year-old agreement between the Danish Nordana...
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Challenging the Dunning Orthodoxy: The Reconstruction Revisionism of Francis Butler Simkins and Robert Hilliard Woody
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James Scott Humphreys
Published: 06 December 2012
.... In their book South Carolina During Reconstruction , historians Francis Butler Simkins and Robert Hilliard Woody debunk the assumptions of the Dunning School by focusing on the plight of blacks in South Carolina. In particular, they compare the lives of blacks during slavery to their lives...
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Published: 20 July 2009
...This chapter examines John Locke’s philosophy of natural rights, and his ambiguous political and economic ties to the colony of South Carolina. It considers some of the written and cultural underpinnings for human rights discourse in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, focusing on what might...
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Published: 20 July 2009
...In 1731, the South Carolina government offered a reward of 175 pounds sterling to any printer who would set up shop in the colony. Benjamin Franklin, one of America’s first media moguls and connected to printing presses throughout the Americas, accepted the position. He met Lewis Timothy, the first...
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Sombreros and Motorcycles in a Newer South: The Politics of Aesthetics in South Carolina's Tourism Industry
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P. Nicole King
Published online: 20 March 2014
Published in print: 15 February 2012
...In 1949, Alan Schafer opened South of the Border, a beer stand located on bucolic farmland in Dillon County, South Carolina, near the border separating North and South Carolina. Even at its beginning, the stand catered to those interested in Mexican-themed kitsch—sombreros, toy piñatas, vividly...
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Published online: 21 January 2016
Published in print: 03 December 2014
...The victory at Port Royal, South Carolina in November 1861 left the Federal government with the responsibility for some ten thousand now-masterless slaves. Lacking a sufficient policy or plan for this new reality, Secretary of the Treasury Salmon Chase dispatched Edward Pierce to Port Royal...
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George Trenholm Sees the Future
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Charles D. Ross
Published: 28 December 2020
.... The chapter then turns to review the impact of Abraham Lincoln's election as president on the slaveholding Southern states and the more industrial Northern states. Three days later George Trenholm introduced a measure in the South Carolina General Assembly denouncing the election and stating that South...
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Published: 05 February 2010
...This chapter discusses the reasoned arbitrariness of racial identity which piqued Chesnutt’s interest in its stipulations. A Person’s status, with regard to legal restrictions and privileges, varied by state, time period, and, in the case of South Carolina, by reputation. These rules were in place...
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Introduction
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Jack Shuler
Published: 20 July 2009
...This book examines the Stono Rebellion, which erupted on September 9, 1739, when a group of Kongolese slaves-turned-rebels stormed a storehouse near Charles Town in the colony of South Carolina and went on to kill about twenty-three white colonists before being subdued by the militia. It first...
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Published: 20 July 2009
...This chapter examines the Stono Rebellion, which broke out on September 9, 1739, when a group of Kongolese slaves-turned-rebels stormed a storehouse near Charles Town in the colony of South Carolina and went on to kill about twenty-three white colonists before being subdued by the militia...
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Published: 20 July 2009
...This chapter examines the legal repercussions the Stono Rebellion, which broke out on September 9, 1739 when a group of Kongolese slaves-turned-rebels hoping to gain liberty stormed a storehouse near Charles Town in the Spanish colony of South Carolina and went on to kill about twenty-three white...
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Published: 20 July 2009
... Rebellion that broke out on September 9, 1739 when a group of Kongolese slaves-turned-rebels hoping to gain liberty stormed a storehouse near Charles Town in the Spanish colony of South Carolina and went on to kill about twenty-three white colonists before being subdued by the militia. The chapter analyzes...
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Published: 26 April 2012
...This chapter focuses on Helen James’s activities and correspondence between 1906 and 1907. Helen arrived in South Carolina in Fall 1906 to teach at Penn School. She soon discovered that island life in South Carolina was more primitive and more dangerous to health than island life in Hawaii. Yellow...
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Published: 15 February 2012
..., accrued wealth, and political connections. South of the Border exemplified trends in mid-century American roadside culture and tourism, such as bright billboards, gigantic designs, and “modern” attractions. Dillon County New South Newer South Schafer Alan Sombreros South Carolina South of the Border...
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German Immigrants and African Americans in Charleston, South Carolina, 1850–1880
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Jeffery Strickland
Published: 07 December 2010
...This chapter explores the relationship between German immigrants and African Americans in Charleston, South Carolina during the years 1850–1880, with particular reference to how concepts of class and ideology brought from Germany gave rise to diverse racial views within German communities...
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The South Carolina Military Academy During The Civil War: Training Ground For The Confederacy
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Christian K. Anderson
Published: 30 September 2021
..., May Confederate States army. Star of the West mural depicting Citadel cadets firing on the ship on January 9, 1861, by David Humphreys Miller, c 1960. Image courtesy of the Citadel Archives and Museum, Charleston, South Carolina. The Citadel, the Military College of South...
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“With the Pen of History, Write Carolina’s Name” Wofford College and the Challenges of War
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Webb Rhonda Kemp
Published: 30 September 2021
... . February 28, 1861, 2. Encyclopedia of South Carolina . St. Clair Shores, MI: Somerset Publishers. “College Record.” 1885. University Magazine 9 (5): 229–32. Sando Teszler Library Archives and Special Collections. Wofford College. Davis, George K. and Gary M...