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...A. V. Huff, Jr. Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 The Eagle and the Vulture: Changing Attitudes Toward Nationalism in Fourth of July Orations Delivered in Charleston, 1778-1860 A. V. Huff, Jr. In the years after they declared independence from Great Britain in 1776, Americans...

...J. H. Easterby Copyright © 1926 by Duke University Press 1926 The Charleston Commercial Convention of l8j>4 J. H. Easterby College of Charleston Public opinion in the South in the decade just prior to the War of Secession was marked by a growing consciousness of the individuality of the South...

...Anne Firor Scott Charleston in the Age of the Pinckneys . By Rogers George C. Jr. Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 1969 . Pp. xv , 173 . $2.95 . Copyright © 1970 by Duke University Press 1970 Book Reviews 169 The antislavery movement clearly included a wide range...

...Winfred E. A. Bernhard Evolution of a Federalist: William Loughton Smith of Charleston (1758-1812) . By Rogers George C. Jr. Columbia : University of South Carolina Press , 1962 . Pp. xiv , 439 . $8.00 . Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 126 The South Atlantic...

...John Hammond Moore No Room, No Rice, No Grits: Charleston s Time of Trouble, 1942-1944 John Hammond Moore The roots of the wartime malaise gripping the proud city cradled by the Ashley and Cooper rivers are all too obvious: too many people with too much money to spend on too few goods...

...Theodore D. Jervey Copyright © 1928 by Duke University Press 1928 WILLIAM LINDSAY SCRUGGS A FORGOTTEN DIPLOMAT THEODORE D. JERVEY Charleston, S. C. AT THE mouth of the Orinoco river, in 1498, Christopher 2JL Columbus first saw the American continent; and there, in the following year, Americus...

...Francis B. Simkins Race Legislation in South Carolina Since 186£ Francis B. Simkins The Citadel, Charleston, S. C. PART I. 1865-1869 With the surrender of Lee at Appomatox and the consequent collapse of the Confederate Government, the elaborate codes regulating negro life, labor, and society...

...Francis B. Simkins Race Legislation in South Carolina Since 186> Francis B. Simkins The Citadel, Charleston, S. C. PART II, 1869 AND AFTER The constitution of 1868 was also supplemented by laws concerning labor contracts, civil rights, suffrage, militia, and penalties for crime. An act of 1869...

...John Bennett Copyright © 1908 by Duke University Press 1908 Gullah: A Negro Patois By John Bennett, Esquire Of Charleston, South Carolina There is a patois spoken in the mainland and island regions, bordering the South Atlantic Seaboard, so singular in its sound as constantly to be mistaken...

...John Bennett, Esquire Copyright © 1909 by Duke University Press 1909 Gullah: A Negro Patois By John Bennett, Esquike Of Charleston, South Carolina Part II. It is far from the writer s intention dogmatically to assert that these dialectical usages of the negroes of the South Atlantic coast...

... legacy of an admirable and highly differentiated group practicing an idealistic social and economic way of life. CHARLESTON, S. C. ALBERT SIMONS The Correspondence of Edmund Burke. Volume VI: July 1789December 1791. Edited by Alfred Cobban and Robert A. Smith. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1967...

...William Stanley Hoole Copyright © 1937 by Duke University Press 1937 TWO FAMOUS THEATRES OF THE OLD SOUTH WILLIAM STANLEY HOOLE READERS of Charleston s City Gazette and Daily Advertiser, .July 27, 1792, were doubtless enthusiastic over the possible outcome of Harry Grant s announcement...

..., and unfriendly, but when you translate it into act as / have had to do, then you are consi­ dered a traitor to your class and state. J. Waties Waring, 1950 On the morning of July 13, 1947, the Charleston News and Courier reported that South Carolina federal judge J. Waties Waring had declared unconstitutional...

... was not specially well adapted to that pro­ duction.3 Various travelers depict the dreariness of the interior coun­ try. A typical account is by Michaux, who journeyed from Columbia to Charleston in 1802, and wrote a description as follows: In all this territory the road lies over a flat country, sandy and arid...

... by these pronouncements and the efforts of the Knights of Labor to recruit black farm workers in the South, Editor Francis W. Dawson of the Charleston News and Courier warned that whites must prepare to meet the challenge by force. Echoing this view, Texas Adjutant General Wilburn H. King recommended that his state...

... was to be across country through Fayetteville, Cheraw and Cam­ den to Columbia, and thence down the railroad to Charleston and Augusta. From Augusta, a branch line was planned to Savannah, but the main line was to follow the railroad to 1 Wisconsin Democrat, October 19, 1843. 2 Charleston Courier, March 26, 1847...

...: the Courier, the Mercury, the News, the News and Gazette, and the Standard, of Charleston; the Camden Weekly Journal; the Southern Patriot and the Southern Enterprise, of Greenville; the Keowee Courier; the Sumter Watchman. The correspondence in the James H. Hammond Papers (Library of Congress) is invaluable...

... and flames on either side. How does that descriptive reading found in the columns of the Charleston Courier one hundred and three years ago, commemorating an epochal event taking place at that time, compare with what now might be written of certain present day achievements, growing out of such origins...

... 1728 to 1734.1 A second great mine of information is to be found in the Public Records of the colony. In the year 1891, largely through the efforts of Mayor Courtenay of Charleston, the legislature of South Carolina appointed a Public Record Commission primarily for the purpose of securing copies...

... 1728 to 1734.1 A second great mine of information is to be found in the Public Records of the colony. In the year 1891, largely through the efforts of Mayor Courtenay of Charleston, the legislature of South Carolina appointed a Public Record Commission primarily for the purpose of securing copies...