Tidewater Low Country Almanac
Author : Sally Hicks Mills
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Page : 69 pages
File Size : 46,36 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Conservation of natural resources
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Author : Sally Hicks Mills
Publisher :
Page : 69 pages
File Size : 46,36 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Conservation of natural resources
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Author : Sally Hicks Mills
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Page : 198 pages
File Size : 27,31 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Conservation of natural resources
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Page : 188 pages
File Size : 14,64 MB
Release : 1998
Category : State government publications
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Publisher : princeton alumni weekly
Page : 920 pages
File Size : 42,68 MB
Release : 1993
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Author : Mark Alan Born
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Page : pages
File Size : 50,97 MB
Release : 2002-11
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ISBN : 9780936521220
Graphical almanac for 2003, illustrated by M.C. Escher, shows each day's tides, currents, sun (rise, set, twilight times), moon (rise, set, phase), visible planets, eclipses, meteor showers.
Author : Mark Alan Born
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Page : 160 pages
File Size : 21,59 MB
Release : 2004
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ISBN : 9781933120065
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Page : 816 pages
File Size : 42,71 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Almanacs, American
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Author : Ras Michael Brown
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 14,39 MB
Release : 2012-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1139561049
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.
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Page : 1020 pages
File Size : 49,30 MB
Release : 1942
Category : Almanacs
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Lists news events, population figures, and miscellaneous data of an historic, economic, scientific and social nature.
Author : Roy Williams III
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 15,38 MB
Release : 2018-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1611178355
The saga of the precipitous rise and ultimate fall of the Jonathan Lucas family's rice-mill dynasty In the 1780s Jonathan Lucas, on a journey from his native England, shipwrecked near the Santee Delta of South Carolina, about forty miles north of Charleston. Lucas, the son of English mill owners and builders, found himself, fortuitously, near vast acres of swamp and marshland devoted to rice cultivation. When the labor-intensive milling process could not keep pace with high crop yields, Lucas was asked by planters to build a machine to speed the process. In 1787 he introduced the first highly successful water-pounding rice mill—creating the foundation of an international rice mill dynasty. In Rice to Ruin, Roy Williams III and Alexander Lucas Lofton recount the saga of the precipitous rise and ultimate fall of that empire. Lucas's invention did for rice, South Carolina's first great agricultural staple, what Eli Whitney did for cotton with his cotton gin. With his sons Jonathan Lucas II and William Lucas, Lucas built rice mills throughout the lowcountry. Eventually the rice kingdom extended to India, Egypt, and Europe after the younger Jonathan Lucas moved to London to be at the center of the international rice trade. Their lives were grand until the American Civil War and its aftermath. The end of slave labor changed the family's fortunes. The capital tied up in slaves evaporated; the plantations and town houses had to be sold off one by one; and the rice fields once described as "the gold mines of South Carolina" often failed or were no longer planted. Disease and debt took its toll on the Lucas clan, and, in the decades that followed, efforts to regain the lost fortune proved futile. In the end the once-glorious Carolina gold rice fields that had brought riches left the family in ruin.