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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790430903321

Titolo

Recovering the Piedmont past : unexplored moments in nineteenth-century Upcountry South Carolina history / / edited by Timothy P. Grady and Melissa Walker ; foreword by Orville Vernon Burton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbia, South Carolina : , : The University of South Carolina Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

1-61117-254-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (253 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GradyTimothy Paul

WalkerMelissa <1962->

Disciplina

975.7/03

Soggetti

Education - South Carolina - History - 19th century

African Americans - South Carolina - History - 19th century

South Carolina History, Local 19th century

South Carolina Social conditions 19th century

South Carolina Church history 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword / Orville Vernon Burton -- Introduction / Timothy P. Grady and Melissa Walker -- Mineral water, dancing, and amusements : the development of tourism in the nineteenth-century Upcountry / Melissa Walker -- "Education has breathed over the scene" : Robert H. Reid and the Reidville schools, 1857-1905 / Timothy P. Grady -- Prelude to Little Bighorn : the Seventh U.S. Cavalry in the South Carolina Upcountry / Andrew H. Myers -- "At present we have no school at all which is truly unfortunate" : freedmen and schools in Abbeville County, 1865-1875 / Katherine D. Cann -- From slavery to freedom : African American life in post-Civil War Spartanburg / Diane C. Vecchio -- African Americans and the Presbyterian Church : the Clinton Presbyterian Church and Sloan's Chapel / Nancy Snell Griffith -- "Murder takes the angel shape of justice" : rape, reputation, and retribution in nineteenth-century Spartanburg / Carol Loar -- "May the Lord keep down hard feelings" : the Woodrow evolution controversy and the 1884 Presbyterian Synod of



South Carolina / Robert B. McCormick.