Tag: South Carolina

  • The report provides a bleak assessment of life in post-war South Carolina, particularly for union men and blacks who “are at the mercy of a set of wretches, as unprincipled as they are cruel.”

  • Carolina Genesis: Beyond the Color Line Backintyme Publishing April 2010 258 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780939479320 Edited by Scott Withrow Borderlands of “Racial” Identity Some Americans pretend that a watertight line separates the “races.” But most know that millions of mixed-heritage families crossed from one “race” to another over the past four centuries. Every essay in…

  • In America, race is a riddle. The stories we tell about our past have calcified into the fiction that we are neatly divided into black or white. It is only with the widespread availability of DNA testing and the boom in genealogical research that the frequency with which individuals and entire families crossed the color…

  • The Sweet Hell Inside: The Rise of an Elite Black Family in the Segregated South Harper Perennial an imprint HarperCollins 2001-09-30 432 pages 5 5/16 x 8 ISBN: 9780060505905; ISBN10: 0060505907 Edward Ball, Lecturer in English Yale University From National Book Award winner ccomes The Sweet Hell Inside, the story of the fascinating Harleston family…

  • Black Slaveowners: Free Black Slave Masters in South Carolina, 1790-1860 McFarland 2012 [Originally Published by University of South Carolina press in 1985] 300 pages 6 x 9 Softcover ISBN: 978-0-7864-6931-4 Larry Koger, Historian Most Americans, both black and white, believe that slavery was a system maintained by whites to exploit blacks, but this authoritative study…

  • Wealthy free women of color in Charleston, South Carolina during slavery University of Massachusetts, Amherst 2007 271 pages Publication Number: AAT 3275800 ISBN: 9780549175599 Rita Reynolds, Assistant Professor of History Wagner College, Staten Island, New York This dissertation focuses on the lives and experiences of a small group of affluent free mulatto women in antebellum…

  • The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that 2010 Census population totals and demographic characteristics have been released for communities in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. These data have provided the first look at population counts for small areas and race, Hispanic origin, voting age and housing unit data released from…

  • The Mestizos of South Carolina The American Journal of Sociology Volume 51, Number 1 (July 1945) pages 34-41 Brewton Berry There are several communities of white-Indian-Negro hybrids in South Carolina, the members of which do not fit into the biracial caste system upon which the state’s whole social structure is built. Similar groups are found…

  • Free at Last: The secret of Esie Mae Washington Williams is out, but she still doesn’t have full control over her story Bloomington Herald-Times 2004-02-14 Courtesy of: Black Film Center/Archive Indiana University Audrey T. McCluskey, Director Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center Indiana University After 78 years of harboring a less than well-kept secret, Essie Mae Washington-Williams…

  • The McDonald Furman Papers, 1889-1903 USCS Newsletter University of South Carolina Society Spring 1997 Terry Lipscomb McDonald Furman, a descendant of Richard Furman, was a history enthusiast with a taste for anthropology. Regarded as an eccentric by contemporary South Carolinians, he was held in high regard by the Smithsonian Institution Bureau of Ethnology. His research…