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Hurricane Jim Crow : How the Great Sea Island Storm of 1893 Shaped the Lowcountry South.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grego, Caroline, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Race relations.
- Hurricanes--Social aspects.
- Hurricanes--Economic aspects.
- African Americans--Segregation.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--South Carolina--History.
- African Americans--Segregation--South Carolina.
- Hurricanes--Social aspects--South Carolina.
- Hurricanes.
- Hurricanes--Economic aspects--South Carolina.
- South Carolina--Atlantic Coast.
- South Carolina.
- South Carolina--History.
- South Carolina--Race relations.
- Atlantic Coast (S.C.)--History.
- Atlantic Coast (S.C.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (313 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2022.
- 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.
- Contents:
- Preface: The List
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I: Hurricane
- Chapter 1. The Lowcountry
- Chapter 2. The Great Sea Island Storm
- Chapter 3. The Survivors
- Part II: Aftermath
- Chapter 4. Relief for Sea Island Sufferers
- Chapter 5. Red Cross Recovery
- Chapter 6. White Backlash
- Part III: Cascade
- Chapter 7. Draining the Black Majority
- Chapter 8. Unmooring the Regional Economy
- Chapter 9. Jim Crow Lowcountry
- Epilogue: Quash Stevens, after the Storm.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-284) and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908614-2-9
- 979-88-908614-3-6
- 1-4696-7137-9
- OCLC:
- 1346944378
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