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Hurricane Jim Crow : How the Great Sea Island Storm of 1893 Shaped the Lowcountry South
Author
Title
Hurricane Jim Crow : How the Great Sea Island Storm of 1893 Shaped the Lowcountry South / Caroline Grego.
ISBN
9781469671376
9781469671345
9781469671369
9781469671352
Publication
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022]
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2022
Copyright Notice Date
©[2022]
Physical Description
1 online resource (312 pages).
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Summary
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE complete collection 2022.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 19, 2023
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
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