The Great Sea Islands Hurricane And Tidal Wave

Author : Craig G. Metts
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781478117216
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Sea Islands Hurricane and Tidal Wave written by Craig G. Metts and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the 27th of August 1893 a hurricane struck the South Carolina and Georgia Seacoast with such a massive storm surge it created a phenomenon that was described as a “tidal wave” because it completely submerged the low lying Georgia and South Carolina Sea Islands. Over 2,000 people perished and 30,000 more saw their homes, barns, livestock and crops washed out to sea. The vast majority of victims were African-American living under the “Jim Crow” system. Their plight became engulfed in a storm of politics and charity.This well-researched book examines the storm and aftermath as well as the economics and social history of one of the worst hurricanes in US History largely unknown and a mere footnote in most history books. As an added bonus this book includes an interview and historical perspective by noted USC professor and Historian Dr. Walter Edgar.

Author : Bill Marscher
Publisher : Mercer University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780865548671
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Sea Island Storm of 1893 written by Bill Marscher and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Sea Island Storm of 1893 details human courage and perseverance in the face of the second most fatal hurricane in US history.

Author : Caroline Grego
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469671360
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hurricane Jim Crow written by Caroline Grego and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2022-10-03 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Through a telescoping series of narratives in which no one's actions were ever fully triumphant or utterly futile, Hurricane Jim Crow explores with nuance this painful and contradictory history and shows how environmental change, political repression, and communal traditions of resistance, survival, and care converged.

Author : Jay Barnes
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469667460
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fifteen Hurricanes That Changed the Carolinas written by Jay Barnes and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2022-03-16 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This informative and engaging book tells the true stories of the hurricanes that had the greatest impact on North Carolina and South Carolina, from the eighteenth century to the present day. Hurricane historian Jay Barnes offers an illuminating and compelling account of the Carolinas' most recent storm disasters, Matthew and Florence, as well as thirteen other memorable hurricanes in the Tar Heel and Palmetto States, including Hazel, Hugo, Fran, and Floyd. In Barnes's hands, the examination of these powerful tropical cyclones leads to a broader view of the history of the Carolinas, revealing not only their terrifying and deadly consequences but also the perseverance of the region's people in the face of such extraordinary disasters. In recounting the rich hurricane history of the Carolinas, from the mountains to the coast, Barnes urges readers to consider the storms to come and profiles how a warming planet and rising seas will affect future Carolina hurricanes.

Author : William Eleazar Barton
Publisher : Рипол Классик
ISBN 13 : 5874126600
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of Clara Barton: Founder of the American Red Cross, Volume 2 written by William Eleazar Barton and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1976 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Clara Barton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 698 pages
Book Rating : 4.M7/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Red Cross written by Clara Barton and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Clara Barton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 722 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Red Cross in Peace and War written by Clara Barton and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Providence Journal Company
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 11 pages
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Download or read book The Great Hurricane and Tidal Wave, Rhode Island, September 21, 1938 written by Providence Journal Company and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : R. A. Scotti
Publisher : Back Bay Books
ISBN 13 : 031605478X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sudden Sea written by R. A. Scotti and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 2008-12-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The massive destruction wreaked by the Hurricane of 1938 dwarfed that of the Chicago Fire, the San Francisco Earthquake, and the Mississippi floods of 1927, making the storm the worst natural disaster in U.S. history. Now, R.A. Scotti tells the story.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yearbook of the United States Department of Agriculture written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: