South Carolina Historical Magazine back issues from October 2000:
South Carolina history: Past, present, and future
Oct 01, 2000; ... THE SOUTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE IS NOT ONLY A collection of essays, articles, and documents relating to South Carolina's history; it is also a reflection and integral part of that history. In May 1999, I began to browse through my set of nearly four hundred issues. As I read, I marked ...
The Fairlawn Barony
Oct 01, 2000; ... NEXT IN ORDER OF DATE AND IMPORTANCE TO THE ASHLEY Barony, or Signiory of St. Giles, was the Signiory of Fairlawn. Generally called Fairlawn Barony, it was properly a Signiory, as it was the grant to one of the Lords Proprietors of an estate, which constituted a Signiory in the hands of a Lord ...
Descendants of judge Robert Pringle
Oct 01, 2000; ... JUDGE ROBERT PRINGLE (1702-1776), THE ANCESTOR OF THE Pringle family in Charleston, whose Bible entries, journal letters and will have appeared in this Magazine,1 left three children. It is my purpose to outline three generations of his descendants. 1 I John Julius Pringle, born July ...
Who is South Carolinian?
Oct 01, 2000; ... THE FIRST EUROPEAN SETTLEMENT IN THE AREA WHICH IS now South Carolina was that of de Ayllon in 1526, presumably, although never conclusively proved, on Waccamaw Neck overlooking Winyah Bay. At that time there were approximately 40,000 Indians living in South Carolina. By the time De Soto reached ...
He Shall Go Out Free: The Lives of Denmark Vesey
Oct 01, 2000; ... He Shall Go Out Free: The Lives of Denmark Vesey. By Douglas R. Egerton. (Madison, WI: Madison House, 1999. Pp xxiv, 248; $34.95, cloth.) In the last few years, our knowledge about Denmark Vesey and his planned insurrection that aimed to bring about the destruction of slavery in ...
Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White Supremacy
Oct 01, 2000; ... Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White Supremacy. By Stephen Kantrowitz. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. Pp. 432. $19.95 paper, $49.95 cloth.) When describing the remarkable life and political career of South Carolina's Benjamin Ryan Tillman, ...
The Leverett Letters: Correspondence of a South Carolina Family, 1851-1868
Oct 01, 2000; ... The Leverett Letters: Correspondence of a South Carolina Family, 1851-1868. Edited by Frances Wallace Taylor, Catherine Taylor Matthews, and J. Tracy Power. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2000. Pp 543. $49.95, cloth.) The large volume of family letters from this period ...
The Jewish Confederates
Oct 01, 2000; ... The Jewish Confederates. By Robert N. Rosen. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2000. Pp. 536. $39.95, cloth.) An avalanche of books in recent years has examined the American Civil War from a host of perspectives. Historians have subjected battles to minute-by-minute ...
Shared Traditions: Southern History and Folk Culture
Oct 01, 2000; ... Shared Traditions: Southern History and Folk Culture. By Charles Joyner. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1999. Pp. xiii, 361. $19.95, paper.) Reading this book is rather like camping out on the front porch for an evening with a well-traveled author and raconteur who ...
William Bartram and the American Revolution on the Southern Frontier
Oct 01, 2000; ... William Bartram and the American Revolution on the Southern Frontier. By Edward J. Cashin. (Columbia: The University of South Carolina Press, 2000. Pp. xv, 319. $39.95, cloth). In this volume Edward J. Cashin has utilized William Bartram's travels through the South to explore the ...
The Confessions of Edward Isham: A Poor White Life of the Old South
Oct 01, 2000; ... The Confessions of Edward Isham: A Poor White Life of the Old South. Edited by Charles C. Bolton and Scott P. Culclasure. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998. Pp. xxii, 192. $18.00, paperback.) J. William Harris notes in his introduction to this volume that, "we know far more ...
Antislavery Violence: Sectional, Racial, and Cultural Conflict in Antebellum America
Oct 01, 2000; ... Antislavery Violence: Sectional, Racial, and Cultural Conflict in Antebellum America. Edited by John R. McKivigan and Stanley Harrold. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1999. Pp. ix, 336. $30.00, cloth.) Reviewing an anthology is very much like kissing your sister. It is ...
Lincoln on Lincoln
Oct 01, 2000; ... Lincoln on Lincoln. By Paul M. Zall. (Lexington, KY: The University of Kentucky Press, 1999. Pp. 216. $25.00, cloth.) Paul Zall's first book, Abe Lincoln Laughing, is the best collection in existence of Lincoln's humor. In that book, Zall carefully sorts through the maze of often ...
Memorials
Oct 01, 2000; ... In Memory Of: Charles Danner Bishop Joan Hartnett Budds Joseph Russell Cross Eugene L. (Jack) Jagar Margaret Closs White Ready Dr. J. Manly Stallworth From: Mr. & Mrs ....