Recovering the Piedmont Past : Unexplored Moments in Nineteenth-Century Upcountry South Carolina History.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Mineral Water, Dancing, and Amusements: The Development of Tourism in the Nineteenth-Century Upcountry -- "Education has Breathed over the Scene": Robert H. Reid and the Reidville Schools, 1857-1905 -- Prelude to Little Bighorn: The Seventh U.S. Cavalry in the South Carolina Upcountry -- "At present we have no school at all which is truly unfortunate": Freedmen and Schools in Abbeville County, 1865-1875 -- From Slavery to Freedom: African American Life in Post-Civil War Spartanburg -- African Americans and the Presbyterian Church: The Clinton Presbyterian Church and Sloan's Chapel -- "Murder takes the angel shape of justice": Rape, Reputation, and Retribution in Nineteenth-Century Spartanburg -- "May the Lord keep down hard feelings": The Woodrow Evolution Controversy and the 1884 Presbyterian Synod of South Carolina -- Suggested Readings -- About the Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

The collection includes a foreword by Orville Vernon Burton, professor of history and director of the Cyberinstitute at Clemson University.

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