Category: South Carolina

A True Likeness: The Black South of Richard Samuel Roberts, 1920-1936 (Non Series)

Price: $24.99

Publisher: University of South Carolina Press : July 2019

Seller ID: 168428

ISBN-13: 9781643360164

Condition: New

A True Likeness showcases the extraordinary photography of Richard Samuel Roberts (1880-1935), who operated a studio in Columbia, South Carolina, from 1920 to 1935. He was one of the few major African American commercial photographers working in the region during the first half of the twentieth century, and his images reveal the social, economic, and cultural realities of the black South and document the rise of a small but significant southern black middle class. The nearly two hundred photographs in A True Likeness were selected from three thousand glass plates that had been stored for decad...
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A World Turned Upside Down: The Palmers of South Santee, 1818-1881

Price: $20.00

Publisher: University of South Carolina Press : September 1996

Seller ID: 190018

ISBN-13: 9781570030475

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A World Turned Upside Down follows the trials of the nineteenth-century planter family that once dominated the southern banks of South Carolina's Santee River. Voluminous, literate, and rich in detail, the Palmer letters and journal entries serve as a sustained narrative of the economic pressures and wartime tragedies that shattered the South's planter aristocracy.The volume offers insight into every aspect of plantation life: education, religion, household management, planting, slave-master relations, and social life. While the antebellum writings reveal rigid attitudes about social, economic...
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Cats Of Charleston

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Weirs Publishing : January 2014

Seller ID: 147994

ISBN-13: 9780991325719

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

ELLISON DURANT SMITH: MEMORIAL SERVICES

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Grafton Press : January 1947

Seller ID: 65080

ISBN: B0013IU4YU

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art : September 2022

Seller ID: 191289

ISBN-13: 9781588397263

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Invisible No More: The African American Experience at the University of South Carolina

Price: $14.99

Publisher: University of South Carolina Press : December 2021

Seller ID: 190939

ISBN-13: 9781643362540

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Our Women in the War

Price: $50.00

Publisher: William McKinnon : July 1998

Seller ID: 176071

ISBN-13: 9781882194476

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Quaint Old Charleston America's Most Historic City

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Charleston: John Huguley Co (1965) : January 1965

Seller ID: 151344

ISBN: B000ROHQOC

Binding: Staple Bound

Condition: Used - Good

South Carolina Secedes (SIGNED)

Price: $75.00

Publisher: University of South Carolina Press : January 1960

Seller ID: 129750

ISBN: B00D48IUR0

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

State of the Heart: South Carolina Writers on the Places They Love (A University of South Carolina Friends Fund Book)

Price: $11.99

Publisher: University of South Carolina Press : April 2013

Seller ID: 191975

ISBN-13: 9781611172515

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In State of the Heart, A da Rogers has crafted an artful love letter to our state, with contributions from a host of nationally and regionally recognized writers who've written short essays on the South Carolina places that they cherish. This anthology provides a multifaceted historical and personal view of the Palmetto State.Thematically organized, this collection offers a geographic and emotional scope that is as diverse as its contributors. Sportswriters describe beloved arenas; historians reflect on church ruins and forts. A playwright recalls the magic of her first theater experience; a f...
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The Crucible of Carolina: Essays in the Development of Gullah Language and Culture

Price: $20.00

Publisher: University of Georgia Press : July 2008

Seller ID: 177061

ISBN-13: 9780820331157

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The ten essays in The Crucible of Carolina explore the connections between the language and culture of South Carolina's barrier islands, West Africa, the Caribbean, and England. Decades before any formal, scholarly interest in South Carolina barrier life, outsiders had been commenting on and documenting the "African" qualities of the region's black inhabitants. These qualities have long been manifest in their language, religious practices, music, and material culture. Although direct contact between South Carolina and Africa continued until the Civil War, the era of Caribbean contact was brief...
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The Family History of Saluda County 1895-1980

Price: $125.00

Publisher: : January 1970

Seller ID: 153419

ISBN: B00A80V9FC

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

The South Carolina Historical And Genealogical Magazine Volume XXV, No 2

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Charleston, SC, South Carolina Historical Society : April 1924

Seller ID: 129903

ISBN: 281ALV1001885

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Yes, Lord, I Know the Road: A Documentary History of African Americans in South Carolina, 1526-2008 (Non Series)

Price: $26.99

Publisher: University of South Carolina Press : February 2017

Seller ID: 168431

ISBN-13: 9781611177312

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Yes, Lord, I Know the Road is the first comprehensive history of African Americans in the Palmetto State. From the first North American slave rebellion near the mouth of the Pee Dee River in the early sixteenth century to the 2008 state Democratic primary victory of Barack Obama, award-winning historian J. Brent Morris examines the unique struggles and triumphs of African Americans in South Carolina. Following an engaging introduction, Morris brings together a wide variety of annotated primary-source documents--personal narratives, government reports, statutes, newspaper articles, and speeches...
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