Format:
1 online resource (254 pages)
ISBN:
9780761844150
Content:
This anthology presents personal narratives and historical photographs that illuminate the diversity of immigrant experiences in North and South Carolina since 1700. The broad focus of the book encompasses all walks of life and documents three centuries of social, political, artistic, and cultural history.
Content:
Intro -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Carolinian Immigrants: Memories of Pride, Grief, and Liberty -- Part I RECOLLECTIONS OF COLONIAL IMMIGRANTS -- Chapter One Christoph von Graffenried Account of the Founding of New Bern -- Chapter Two Robert Witherspoon Memories of a South Carolinian Settler -- Chapter Three James Murray: Letters from a Scottish Pioneer -- Chapter Four Olaudah Equiano An African's Account -- Chapter Five August Spangenberg The Moravian Diary -- Chapter Six Mary Gloud Testimony in the Indian Book -- Chapter Seven Janet Schaw Journal of an English Lady -- Part II MEMORIES OF REVOLUTION, PEACE, AND WAR 1776-1865 -- Chapter Eight Christiana Teulon Declaration of a Revolutionary War Widow -- Chapter Nine Joseph Salvador Letter from Charleston -- Chapter Ten The Confession of Monday Gell -- Chapter Eleven Chang and Eng Bunker Family Letters -- Chapter Twelve Omar ibn Said Autobiography of a Slave in North Carolina -- Chapter Thirteen Charles Ball Slave Migration -- Chapter Fourteen Lena Pearlstine Berkman Passage from Poland -- Chapter Fifteen Hermann Bokum A Refugee's Testimony -- Chapter Sixteen Loreta Velazquez Civil War Exploits and Travels -- Part III NEW CAROLINIANS IN THE NEW SOUTH 1865-1938 -- Chapter Seventeen Nicholas Said Memories of an African Muslim -- Chapter Eighteen John Wagener South Carolina: Home of the Industrious Immigrant -- Chapter Nineteen Nettie McCormick Henley Scottish Legacies -- Chapter Twenty Louis Philippe Guigou Waldensian Trail of Faith -- Chapter Twenty-One George Mehales Dixie Lunch Memories -- Chapter Twenty-Two Anna Gelson Berendt From Ellis Island to Yonges Island -- Chapter Twenty-Three Hugh MacRay Bringing Immigrants to the South -- Chapter Twenty-Four Thelma Wingate Scandinavians follow the Sea -- Chapter Twenty-Five Constantin Geraris Life of a Greek Restaurateur.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780761844136
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780761844136
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=500879
Author information:
Lixl-Purcell, Andreas 1951-2015
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