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1 online resource |
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Book collections on Project MUSE
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| Contents |
Cover -- Contents -- List of Graphs, Illustrations, and Tables -- Preface: The List -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Hurricane -- Chapter 1. The Lowcountry -- Chapter 2. The Great Sea Island Storm -- Chapter 3. The Survivors -- Part II: Aftermath -- Chapter 4. Relief for Sea Island Sufferers -- Chapter 5. Red Cross Recovery -- Chapter 6. White Backlash -- Part III: Cascade -- Chapter 7. Draining the Black Majority -- Chapter 8. Unmooring the Regional Economy -- Chapter 9. Jim Crow Lowcountry -- Epilogue: Quash Stevens, after the Storm -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
"On an August night in 1893, the deadliest hurricane in South Carolina history struck the Lowcountry, killing thousands-almost all African American. But the devastating storm is only the beginning of this story. The hurricane's long effects intermingled with ongoing processes of economic downturn, racial oppression, resistance, and environmental change. In the Lowcountry, the political, economic, and social conditions of Jim Crow were inextricable from its environmental dimensions. This narrative history of a monumental disaster and its aftermath uncovers how Black workers and politicians, white landowners and former enslavers, northern interlocutors and humanitarians all met on the flooded ground of the coast and fought to realize very different visions for the region's future"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
African Americans -- South Carolina -- History
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African Americans -- Segregation -- South Carolina
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Hurricanes -- Social aspects -- South Carolina
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Hurricanes -- Economic aspects -- South Carolina
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HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
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Race relations
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Hurricanes -- Social aspects
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Hurricanes -- Economic aspects
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African Americans -- Segregation
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African Americans
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| SUBJECT |
South Carolina -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125554
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South Carolina -- Race relations
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Atlantic Coast (S.C.) -- History
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| Subject |
South Carolina -- Atlantic Coast
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South Carolina
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Project Muse. distributor.
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| LC no. |
2022023741 |
| ISBN |
9781469671369 |
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1469671360 |
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9781469671376 |
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1469671379 |
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