Pickens County Heritage, South Carolina, 1995
Author : Pickens County Heritage Book Committee (S.C.)
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Page : 194 pages
File Size : 28,65 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Pickens County (S.C.)
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Author : Pickens County Heritage Book Committee (S.C.)
Publisher :
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 28,65 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Pickens County (S.C.)
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Author : John M. Coggeshall
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 41,18 MB
Release : 2022-09-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1469670267
What is the "something in these hills" that ties mountain families to family land in the southern Appalachians? This ethnographic examination challenges contemporary theory and explores two interrelated themes: the duality of the southern Appalachians as both a menacing and majestic landscape and the emotional relationship to family land characteristic of long-term residents of these mountains. To most outsiders, the area conjures images of a beautiful yet dangerous place, typified by the movie Deliverance. To long-term residents, these mountains have a fundamental emotional hold so powerful that many mourn the sale or loss of family land as if it were a deceased relative. How can the same geographical space be both? Using a carefully crafted cultural lens, John M. Coggeshall explains how family land anthropomorphizes, metaphorically becoming another member of kin groups. He establishes that this emotional sense of place existed prior to recent land losses, contrary to some contemporary scholars. Utilizing the voices and perspectives of long-term residents, the book provides readers with a more fundamental understanding of the "something in these hills" that holds people in place.
Author : W. J. Megginson
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 45,25 MB
Release : 2022-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1643363395
A rich portrait of Black life in South Carolina's Upstate Encyclopedic in scope, yet intimate in detail, African American Life in South Carolina's Upper Piedmont, 1780–1900, delves into the richness of community life in a setting where Black residents were relatively few, notably disadvantaged, but remarkably cohesive. W. J. Megginson shifts the conventional study of African Americans in South Carolina from the much-examined Lowcountry to a part of the state that offered a quite different existence for people of color. In Anderson, Oconee, and Pickens counties—occupying the state's northwest corner—he finds an independent, brave, and stable subculture that persevered for more than a century in the face of political and economic inequities. Drawing on little-used state and county denominational records, privately held research materials, and sources available only in local repositories, Megginson brings to life African American society before, during, and after the Civil War. Orville Vernon Burton, Judge Matthew J. Perry Jr. Distinguished Professor of History at Clemson University and University Distinguished Teacher/Scholar Emeritus at the University of Illinois, provides a new foreword.
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Page : 668 pages
File Size : 17,64 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Genealogy
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Page : 755 pages
File Size : 14,46 MB
Release : 1994
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 9781556139857
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Page : 934 pages
File Size : 28,72 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Genealogy
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Author : Walter B. Edgar
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Page : 1128 pages
File Size : 39,98 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
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With nearly 2,000 entries and 520 illustrations, this comprehensive reference surveys the history and culture of the Palmetto State from A to Z, mountains to coast, and prehistory to the present.
Author : R. Chad Stewart
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 11,72 MB
Release : 2017-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1625857624
Easley has a rare combination of a quaint Main Street and a thriving industrial presence. The city was a series of small farms and open land until residents convinced officials to make the area a stop along the Atlanta and Richmond Air-Line Railroad after the Civil War. Access to the railroad and the popularity of cotton spurred an era of rapid growth and expansion, culminating in the dominance of the textile industry throughout most of the twentieth century. While cotton drove textiles in the area, advances in agriculture and manufacturing brought dozens of companies, placing Easley at the center of the state's biggest industrial area. Author Chad Stewart details the history of a city that moved from sleepy train stop to vibrant South Carolina city.
Author : John M. Coggeshall
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 29,65 MB
Release : 2018-04-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1469640864
In 2007, while researching mountain culture in upstate South Carolina, anthropologist John M. Coggeshall stumbled upon the small community of Liberia in the Blue Ridge foothills. There he met Mable Owens Clarke and her family, the remaining members of a small African American community still living on land obtained immediately after the Civil War. This intimate history tells the story of five generations of the Owens family and their friends and neighbors, chronicling their struggles through slavery, Reconstruction, the Jim Crow era, and the desegregation of the state. Through hours of interviews with Mable and her relatives, as well as friends and neighbors, Coggeshall presents an ethnographic history that allows members of a largely ignored community to speak and record their own history for the first time. This story sheds new light on the African American experience in Appalachia, and in it Coggeshall documents the community's 150-year history of resistance to white oppression, while offering a new way to understand the symbolic relationship between residents and the land they occupy, tying together family, memory, and narratives to explain this connection.
Author : William R. Reynolds, Jr.
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 38,16 MB
Release : 2013-02-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0786492430
Brigadier General Andrew Pickens was a primary force bringing about the end of British control in the Southern colonies. His efforts helped drive General Cornwallis to Yorktown, Virginia. His later actions on behalf of the Cherokee Nation are fully explored, and much never before published information about him, his family, and his peers is included. Andrew Pickens loved his country and was a fearless exemplar of leadership. He earned the unyielding respect of his superiors, his fellow officers, and most importantly his militiamen.