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Recovering the Piedmont past

Recovering the Piedmont past unexplored moments in nineteenth-century Upcountry South Carolina history / [electronic resource] : edited by Timothy P. Grady and Melissa Walker ; foreword by Orville Vernon Burton. - Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (pages cm)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

9781611172546


South Carolina--Church history--19th century.
African Americans--History--South Carolina--19th century.
Education--History--South Carolina--19th century.


South Carolina--Social conditions--19th century.
South Carolina--History, Local--19th century.


Electronic books.

F273 / .R32 2013

975.7/03