African American Cemeteries of Pickens County, South Carolina
Title | African American Cemeteries of Pickens County, South Carolina PDF eBook |
Author | G. Anne Sheriff |
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Pages | 251 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Cemeteries |
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African American Life in South Carolina's Upper Piedmont, 1780-1900
Title | African American Life in South Carolina's Upper Piedmont, 1780-1900 PDF eBook |
Author | W. J. Megginson |
Publisher | Univ of South Carolina Press |
Pages | 574 |
Release | 2022-08-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1643363395 |
A rich portrait of Black life in South Carolina's Upstate Encyclopedic in scope, yet intimate in detail, African American Life in South Carolina's Upper Piedmont, 1780–1900, delves into the richness of community life in a setting where Black residents were relatively few, notably disadvantaged, but remarkably cohesive. W. J. Megginson shifts the conventional study of African Americans in South Carolina from the much-examined Lowcountry to a part of the state that offered a quite different existence for people of color. In Anderson, Oconee, and Pickens counties—occupying the state's northwest corner—he finds an independent, brave, and stable subculture that persevered for more than a century in the face of political and economic inequities. Drawing on little-used state and county denominational records, privately held research materials, and sources available only in local repositories, Megginson brings to life African American society before, during, and after the Civil War. Orville Vernon Burton, Judge Matthew J. Perry Jr. Distinguished Professor of History at Clemson University and University Distinguished Teacher/Scholar Emeritus at the University of Illinois, provides a new foreword.
African-American Cemeteries, Anderson County, South Carolina
Title | African-American Cemeteries, Anderson County, South Carolina PDF eBook |
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Pages | 105 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | African American cemeteries |
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Pickens County, South Carolina Cemetery Surve
Title | Pickens County, South Carolina Cemetery Surve PDF eBook |
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African American Cemeteries, Newberry, South Carolina
Title | African American Cemeteries, Newberry, South Carolina PDF eBook |
Author | Edith Greisser |
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Release | 2003 |
Genre | African Americans |
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Edgefield County, S.C. African American Cemeteries
Title | Edgefield County, S.C. African American Cemeteries PDF eBook |
Author | Old Edgefield District Genealogical Society (Edgefield, South Carolina) |
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Pages | 239 |
Release | 2002 |
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Pickens County, South Carolina Cemetery Survey
Title | Pickens County, South Carolina Cemetery Survey PDF eBook |
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Release | 1980 |
Genre | Cemeteries |
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