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A Memoir of James De Veaux, of Charleston, S.C.
James De Veaux (1812-1844) was a promising young South Carolina-born artist who began his career painting portraits up and down the East Coast and throughout his native state. …
William Elliott's Carolina Sports by Land and Water
A Church, a School
Ralph McGill (1898–1969) was the editor in chief of the Atlanta Constitution during the turbulent years of the civil rights movement that followed Brown v. Board of Education, and …
South Carolina Negroes, 1877-1900
African Americans in the state after Reconstruction and before Jim Crow; First published in 1952, South Carolina Negroes, 1877-1900 rediscovers a time and a people nearly erased …
I Came Out of the Eighteenth Century
John Andrew Rice's autobiography, first published to critical acclaim in 1942, is a remarkable tour through late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century America. When the book was …
McGillivray of the Creeks
First published in 1939, ""McGillivray of the Creeks"" is a unique mix of primary and secondary sources for the study of American Indian history in the Southeast. John Walton …
Conscription and Conflict in the Confederacy
Using conscription to illustrate a central paradox of the Confederacy, this work examines the system's daily operations, troublesome substitution, and exemption procedures, and …
Bill Arp's Peace Papers
This is a compendium of Southern witticisms by the Confederacy's most famous humorist. First published in 1873 Bill Arp's ""Peace Papers"" collects some of the Southern humorist's …
The Slave Power
John E. Cairnes's seminal work on slavery was widely acclaimed upon its publication in 1862 as a brilliant attempt both to explain the essential cause of the American Civil War and …
The Plantation
A rare classic in American social science, Edgar Thompson's 1932 University of Chicago dissertation, ""The Plantation,"" broke new analytic ground in the study of the southern …
The Southern Literary Messenger, 1834-1864
The Southern Literary Messenger enjoyed an impressive thirty-year run (1834-1864) and was, in its time, the South's most important literary periodical. Published in Richmond, …
Slave Trading in the Old South
First published in 1931, the author exposes the commercial aspects of slave trading, including the ""breeding"" and ""rearing"" of slaves for sale to Western territories. The …