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Author | : Peter McCandless |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2011-04-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139499149 |
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On the eve of the Revolution, the Carolina lowcountry was the wealthiest and unhealthiest region in British North America. Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry argues that the two were intimately connected: both resulted largely from the dominance of rice cultivation on plantations using imported African slave labor. This development began in the coastal lands near Charleston, South Carolina, around the end of the seventeenth century. Rice plantations spread north to the Cape Fear region of North Carolina and south to Georgia and northeast Florida in the late colonial period. The book examines perceptions and realities of the lowcountry disease environment; how the lowcountry became notorious for its 'tropical' fevers, notably malaria and yellow fever; how people combated, avoided or perversely denied the suffering they caused; and how diseases and human responses to them influenced not only the lowcountry and the South, but the United States, even helping to secure American independence.
Author | : Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus Peter McCandless |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2014-05-14 |
Genre | : Charleston Region (S.C.) |
ISBN | : 9781139078450 |
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Explores how disease and human responses to it influenced the South and the United States.
Author | : Ras Michael Brown |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2012-08-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139561049 |
Download African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry examines perceptions of the natural world revealed by the religious ideas and practices of African-descended communities in South Carolina from the colonial period into the twentieth century. Focusing on Kongo nature spirits known as the simbi, Ras Michael Brown describes the essential role religion played in key historical processes, such as establishing new communities and incorporating American forms of Christianity into an African-based spirituality. This book illuminates how people of African descent engaged the spiritual landscape of the Lowcountry through their subsistence practices, religious experiences and political discourse.
Author | : Fred E Witzig |
Publisher | : Univ of South Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2018-04-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1611178460 |
Download Sanctifying Slavery and Politics in South Carolina Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A vivid portrait of a Scottish religious leader and the South Carolina colony he helped shape When Alexander Garden, a Scottish minister of the Church of England, arrived in South Carolina in 1720, he found a colony smoldering from the devastation of the Yamasee War and still suffering from economic upheaval, political factionalism, and rampant disease. It was also a colony turning enthusiastically toward plantation agriculture, made possible by African slave labor. In Sanctifying Slavery and Politics in South Carolina, the first published biography of Garden, Fred E. Witzig paints a vivid portrait of the religious leader and the South Carolina colony he helped shape. Shortly after his arrival, Garden, a representative of the bishop of London, became the rector of St. Philip's Church in Charleston, the first Anglican parish in the colony. The ambitious clergyman quickly married into a Charleston slave-trading family and allied himself with the political and social elite. From the pulpit Garden reinforced the social norms and economic demands of the southern planters and merchants, and he disciplined recalcitrant missionaries who dared challenge the prevailing social order. As a way of defending the morality of southern slaveholders, he found himself having to establish the first large-scale school for slaves in Charles Town in the 1740s. Garden also led a spirited—and largely successful—resistance to the Great Awakening evangelical movement championed by the revivalist minister George Whitefield, whose message of personal salvation and a more democratic Christianity was anathema to the social fabric of the slaveholding South, which continually feared a slave rebellion. As a minister Garden helped make slavery morally defensible in the eyes of his peers, giving the appearance that the spiritual obligations of his slaveholding and slave-trading friends were met as they all became extraordinarily wealthy. Witzig's lively cultural history—bolstered by numerous primary sources, maps, and illustrations—helps illuminate both the roots of the Old South and the Church of England's role in sanctifying slavery in South Carolina.
Author | : Craig Thompson Friend |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 1107084202 |
Download Death and the American South Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Death and the American South is an edited collection of twelve never-before-published essays, featuring leading senior scholars as well as influential up-and-coming historians. The contributors use a variety of methodological approaches for their research and explore different parts of the South and varying themes in history.
Author | : James Van Horn Melton |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2015-06-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1316299295 |
Download Religion, Community, and Slavery on the Colonial Southern Frontier Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book tells the story of Ebenezer, a frontier community in colonial Georgia founded by a mountain community fleeing religious persecution in its native Salzburg. This study traces the lives of the settlers from the alpine world they left behind to their struggle for survival on the southern frontier of British America. Exploring their encounters with African and indigenous peoples with whom they had had no previous contact, this book examines their initial opposition to slavery and why they ultimately embraced it. Transatlantic in scope, this study will interest readers of European and American history alike.
Author | : Josie Olsvig |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2020-10-30 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781646631469 |
Download Gullah Tears Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In the Deep South of antebellum Charleston, enslaved Gullah woman Hentie survives the day-to-day sufferings brought on by her cruel master and the white planter society that controls the institution of slavery. From Hentie's abduction and confinement on a slaver ship, we follow her journey of pain and despair as she begins her new life in a land that causes her much heartache and oppression. Her circumstances are buoyed by the warmth, love and support of her fellow enslaved workers, who lift her up and encourage her to continue on.
Author | : Ethan J. Kytle |
Publisher | : The New Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2018-04-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1620973669 |
Download Denmark Vesey’s Garden Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
One of Janet Maslin’s Favorite Books of 2018, The New York Times One of John Warner’s Favorite Books of 2018, Chicago Tribune Named one of the “Best Civil War Books of 2018” by the Civil War Monitor “A fascinating and important new historical study.” —Janet Maslin, The New York Times “A stunning contribution to the historiography of Civil War memory studies.” —Civil War Times The stunning, groundbreaking account of "the ways in which our nation has tried to come to grips with its original sin" (Providence Journal) Hailed by the New York Times as a "fascinating and important new historical study that examines . . . the place where the ways slavery is remembered mattered most," Denmark Vesey's Garden "maps competing memories of slavery from abolition to the very recent struggle to rename or remove Confederate symbols across the country" (The New Republic). This timely book reveals the deep roots of present-day controversies and traces them to the capital of slavery in the United States: Charleston, South Carolina, where almost half of the slaves brought to the United States stepped onto our shores, where the first shot at Fort Sumter began the Civil War, and where Dylann Roof murdered nine people at Emanuel A.M.E. Church, which was co-founded by Denmark Vesey, a black revolutionary who plotted a massive slave insurrection in 1822. As they examine public rituals, controversial monuments, and competing musical traditions, "Kytle and Roberts's combination of encyclopedic knowledge of Charleston's history and empathy with its inhabitants' past and present struggles make them ideal guides to this troubled history" (Publishers Weekly, starred review). A work the Civil War Times called "a stunning contribution, " Denmark Vesey's Garden exposes a hidden dimension of America's deep racial divide, joining the small bookshelf of major, paradigm-shifting interpretations of slavery's enduring legacy in the United States.
Author | : Katherine Johnston |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2022-09-15 |
Genre | : Human beings |
ISBN | : 019751460X |
Download The Nature of Slavery Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Following a story from the Caribbean to the colony of Georgia through debates over the abolition of the slave trade and finally to the antebellum South, The Nature of Slavery demonstrates the pervasiveness of a groundless theory about climate, labor, and bodily difference that ultimately contributed to notions of race.
Author | : David Stefan Doddington |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2018-07-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108423981 |
Download Contesting Slave Masculinity in the American South Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Highlights competing masculine values in slave communities and reveals how masculinity shaped resistance, accommodation, and survival.