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Title Recovering the Piedmont past : unexplored moments in nineteenth-century Upcountry South Carolina history / edited by Timothy P. Grady and Melissa Walker ; foreword by Orville Vernon Burton.

Publication Info. Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2013]
2013

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Description 1 online resource (253 pages) : illustrations, map, portrait
text rdacontent
computer rdamedia
online resource rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Foreword / Orville Vernon Burton -- Introduction / Timothy P. Grady and Melissa Walker -- Mineral water, dancing, and amusements : the development of tourism in the nineteenth-century Upcountry / Melissa Walker -- "Education has breathed over the scene" : Robert H. Reid and the Reidville schools, 1857-1905 / Timothy P. Grady -- Prelude to Little Bighorn : the Seventh U.S. Cavalry in the South Carolina Upcountry / Andrew H. Myers -- "At present we have no school at all which is truly unfortunate" : freedmen and schools in Abbeville County, 1865-1875 / Katherine D. Cann -- From slavery to freedom : African American life in post-Civil War Spartanburg / Diane C. Vecchio -- African Americans and the Presbyterian Church : the Clinton Presbyterian Church and Sloan's Chapel / Nancy Snell Griffith -- "Murder takes the angel shape of justice" : rape, reputation, and retribution in nineteenth-century Spartanburg / Carol Loar -- "May the Lord keep down hard feelings" : the Woodrow evolution controversy and the 1884 Presbyterian Synod of South Carolina / Robert B. McCormick.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Education -- South Carolina -- History -- 19th century.
African Americans -- South Carolina -- History -- 19th century.
South Carolina -- History, Local -- 19th century.
South Carolina -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
South Carolina -- Church history -- 19th century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Grady, Timothy Paul.
Walker, Melissa, 1962-
Other Form: Print version: Recovering the Piedmont past : unexplored moments in nineteenth-century Upcountry South Carolina history. Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2013] xi, 236 pages 9781611172539 (DLC) 2013010907
ISBN 9781611172539 (hardbound : alk. paper)
9781611172546 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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