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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809847503321

Titolo

Memories of Carolinian immigrants : autobiographies, diaries, and letters from colonial times to the present / / edited by Andreas Lixl

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md., : University Press Of America, c2009

ISBN

1-282-47965-2

9786612479656

0-7618-4415-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (284 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Lixl-PurcellAndreas <1951->

Disciplina

929.20973

Soggetti

Immigrants - South Carolina

Immigrants - North Carolina

South Carolina Biography

North Carolina Biography

South Carolina Emigration and immigration History Sources

North Carolina Emigration and immigration History Sources

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 (p. 241-256) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part 1 Recollections of Colonial Immigrants-Christoph von Graffenried: Account of the Founding of New Bern; Robert Witherspoon: Memories of a South Carolinian Settler; James Murray: Letters from a Scottish Pioneer; Olaudah Equiano: An African's Account; August Part 2 Memories of Revolution, Peace, and War 1776-1865-Christiana Teulon: Declaration of a Revolutionary War Widow; Joseph Salvador: Letter from Charleston; The Confession of Monday Gell; Chang and Eng Bunker: Family Letters; Omar ibn Said: Autobiography of a Part 3 New Carolinians in the New South 1865-1938-Nicholas Said: Memories of an African Muslim; John Wagener: South Carolina: Home of the Industrious Immigrant; Nettie McCormick Henley: Scottish Legacies; Louis Philippe Guigou: Waldensian Trail of FaithGeorge M Part 4 Modern Day Memories of Carolinian Immigrants-Max Heller: Memories of a Greenville Mayor; Durba Ahmed: Not as American as Apple Pie; Gisela Hood: Cold War Bride; The Khalid Family: Every Place That You Call Yours Is God's; Kwame Dawes: A Jamaican Father;



Sommario/riassunto

This anthology presents personal narratives and historical photographs that illuminate the diversity of immigrant experiences in North and South Carolina since 1700. The broad focus of the book encompasses all walks of life and documents three centuries of social, political, artistic, and cultural history.