The Forgotten Works of a Lowcountry Lady
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Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 43,61 MB
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ISBN : 1424329108
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Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 43,61 MB
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ISBN : 1424329108
Author : J. Nicole Jones
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 20,72 MB
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1948226871
"From horse thieves to hurricanes, from shattered Southern myths to fractured family ties, from Nashville to Myrtle Beach to Miami, Low Country is a lyrical, devastating, fiercely original memoir" of one family's changing fortunes in the Low Country of South Carolina (Justin Taylor, author of Riding with the Ghost). J. Nicole Jones is the only daughter of a prominent South Carolina family, a family that grew rich building the hotels and seafood restaurants that draw tourists to Myrtle Beach. But at home, she is surrounded by violence and capriciousness: a grandfather who beats his wife, a barman father who dreams of being a country music star. At one time, Jones's parents can barely afford groceries; at another, her volatile grandfather presents her with a fur coat. After a girlhood of extreme wealth and deep debt, of ghosts and folklore, of cruel men and unwanted spectacle, Jones finds herself face to face with an explosive possibility concerning her long-abused grandmother that she can neither speak nor shake. And through the lens of her own family's catastrophes and triumphs, Jones pays homage to the landscapes and legends of her childhood home, a region haunted by its history: Eliza Pinckney cultivates indigo, Blackbeard ransacks the coast, and the Gray Man paces the beach, warning of Hurricane Hazel.
Author : Owen Wister
Publisher : J.S. Sanders Books
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 41,82 MB
Release : 1992-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1461713781
The classic novel of post-Civil War Charleston life, a portrayal of the process of healing the wounds of war through reconciliation between Northerners and Southerners on a personal, not political, level. Southern Classics Series.
Author : C. Hope Clark
Publisher : Bell Bridge Books
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 22,59 MB
Release : 2012-01-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1611941105
A bribery case gone wrong leads a woman into the deep, dank Carolina Lowcountry on a manhunt. Carolina Slade, a by-the-book federal county manager in the coastal Lowcountry of South Carolina, reports an attempted bribe only to find herself a key player in a sting operation run by Senior Special Agent Wayne Largo from the IG Office in Atlanta. However, the IG isn't telling Slade everything about this case or the disappearance-presumed-murder of Slade's boss the year before. When the sting blows up, both cases are put on hold and Wayne is yanked back to Atlanta, leaving Slade to fear not only for her life and job, but for her children's safety. Suddenly, operating by the book is no longer an option. Author C. Hope Clark, an award-winning writer of two mystery series (Carolina Slade and the Edisto Island mysteries), founded FundsforWriters.com, which Writer's Digest has recognized in its annual 101 Best Web Sites for Writers for almost two decades. Hope is married to a 30-year veteran of federal law enforcement, a Senior Special Agent, now a private investigator. They live in South Carolina, on the banks of Lake Murray. Hope is hard at work on the next novel in her Carolina Slade Mystery Series. Visit her at www.chopeclark.com.
Author : Anne Rivers Siddons
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Page : 564 pages
File Size : 49,77 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Conservation of natural resources
ISBN : 9780739400067
Caroline must pull herself out of her grief to save the wild lands of her inheritance from development.
Author : John England
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Page : 524 pages
File Size : 36,28 MB
Release : 1849
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Author : Betty Wood
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 39,4 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820316673
In Women's Work, Men's Work, Betty Wood examines the struggle of bondpeople to secure and retain for themselves recognized rights as producers and consumers in the context of the brutal, formal slave economy sanctified by law. Wood examines this struggle in the Georgia lowcountry over a period of eighty years, from the 1750s to the 1830s, when, she argues, the evolution of the system of informal slave economies had reached the point that it would henceforth dominate Savannah's political agenda until the Civil War and emancipation. The daily battles of bondpeople to secure rights as producers and consumers reflected and reinforced the integrity of the private lives they were determined to fashion for themselves, Wood posits. Their families formed the essential base upon which, and for which, they organized their informal economies. An expanding market in Savannah provided opportunities for them to negotiate terms for the sale of their labor and produce, and for them to purchase the goods and services they sought. In considering the quasi-autonomous economic activities of bondpeople, Wood outlines the equally significant, but quite different, roles of bondwomen and bondmen in organizing these economies. She also analyzes the influence of evangelical Protestant Christianity on bondpeople, and the effects of the fusion of religious and economic morality on their circumstances. For a combination of practical and religious reasons, Wood finds, informal slave economies, with their impact on whites, became the single most important issue in Savannah politics. She contends that, by the 1820s, bondpeople were instrumental in defining the political agenda of a divided city--a significant, if unintentional, achievement.
Author : Toomer Porter
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 16,46 MB
Release : 2024-04-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385416639
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
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Page : 360 pages
File Size : 38,88 MB
Release : 2003
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Author : John England
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Page : 520 pages
File Size : 17,10 MB
Release : 1849
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