The Great Sea Island Storm of 1893 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Great Sea Island Storm of 1893 write by Bill Marscher. This book was released on 2004. The Great Sea Island Storm of 1893 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Great Sea Island Storm of 1893 details human courage and perseverance in the face of the second most fatal hurricane in US history.
Hurricane Jim Crow
Hurricane Jim Crow - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hurricane Jim Crow write by Caroline Grego. This book was released on 2022-10-03. Hurricane Jim Crow available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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. Through a telescoping series of narratives in which no one's actions were ever fully triumphant or utterly futile, Hurricane Jim Crow explores with nuance this painful and contradictory history and shows how environmental change, political repression, and communal traditions of resistance, survival, and care converged.
The Great Sea Islands Hurricane and Tidal Wave
The Great Sea Islands Hurricane and Tidal Wave - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Great Sea Islands Hurricane and Tidal Wave write by Craig G. Metts. This book was released on 2012-06-01. The Great Sea Islands Hurricane and Tidal Wave available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On the 27th of August 1893 a hurricane struck the South Carolina and Georgia Seacoast with such a massive storm surge it created a phenomenon that was described as a “tidal wave” because it completely submerged the low lying Georgia and South Carolina Sea Islands. Over 2,000 people perished and 30,000 more saw their homes, barns, livestock and crops washed out to sea. The vast majority of victims were African-American living under the “Jim Crow” system. Their plight became engulfed in a storm of politics and charity.This well-researched book examines the storm and aftermath as well as the economics and social history of one of the worst hurricanes in US History largely unknown and a mere footnote in most history books. As an added bonus this book includes an interview and historical perspective by noted USC professor and Historian Dr. Walter Edgar.
A Son of the Carolinas
A Son of the Carolinas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Son of the Carolinas write by Elisabeth Carpenter Satterthwait. This book was released on 1972. A Son of the Carolinas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Lowcountry Hurricanes
Lowcountry Hurricanes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lowcountry Hurricanes write by Walter J. Fraser, Jr.. This book was released on 2009-03-01. Lowcountry Hurricanes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At once sobering and thrilling, this illustrated history recounts how, for the past three hundred years, hurricanes have altered lives and landscapes along the Georgia-South Carolina seaboard. A prime target for the fierce storms that develop in the Atlantic, the region is especially vulnerable because of its shallow, gradually sloping sea floor and low-lying coastline. With an eye on both natural and built environments, Fraser's narrative ranges from the first documented storm in 1686 to recent times in describing how the lowcountry has endured some of the severest effects of wind and water. This chronology of the most notable lowcountry storms is also a useful primer on the basics of hurricane dynamics. Fraser tells how the 800-ton Rising Sun foundered in open water near Charles Town during the hurricane of 1700. About one hundred persons were aboard. All perished. Drawing on eyewitness accounts, he describes the storm surge of an 1804 hurricane that submerged most of Tybee Island and swept over the fort on nearby Cockspur Island, drowning soldiers and civilians. Readers may have their own memories of Hurricanes Andrew, Opal, and Hugo. Although hurricanes frequently lead to significant loss of life, Fraser recounts numerous gripping instances of survival and rescue at sea and ashore. The author smoothly weaves the lowcountry's long social, political, and economic history with firsthand reports and data accumulated by the National Weather Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Generously illustrated with contemporary and historical photographs, this is a readable and informative resource on one of nature's most awesome forces.
