Records, 1836-1857, of the Waccamaw-Conwayborough Methodist Episcopal Circuit in Horry County, South Carolina, documenting the events of quarterly conferences, including attendees, complaints, appeals, license renewals, Sunday school news, and church members "admitted on trial" or expelled.
Records, 1820-1875, of the quarterly conferences held by the Newberry Circuit of Newberry County, South Carolina documenting attendees, complaints, appeals, finances, license renewals, and expulsions from the church.
Records, 1857-1869, of the Black River Circuit located in Williamsburg County, South Carolina consist of quarterly conference minutes documenting meeting proceedings, churches in attendance, finances, complaints, and appeals.
Records, 1876-1961, of the Johnsonville Circuit, now located in Georgetown and Williamsburg Counties, South Carolina, including attendance records, records of receipts and payments, quarterly conference records, church registers, Sunday school attendance records, and account books.
Record book, 1884-1888, of the Cypress Circuit in the Charleston District of the South Carolina Conference containing minutes taken during quarterly conferences including attendee lists, Sunday School reports, and information on the "general state of the church."
In this innovative study of the South Carolina Low Country, author Stephanie McCurry explores the place of the yeomanry in plantation society--the complex web of domestic and public relations within which they were enmeshed, and the contradictory politics of slave society by which that class of small farmers extracted the privileges of masterhood from the region's powerful planters. Insisting on the centrality of women as historical actors and gender as a category of analysis, this work shows how the fateful political choices made by the low-country yeomanry were rooted in the politics of the household, particularly in the customary relations of power male heads of independent households assumed over their dependents, whether slaves or free women and children. Such masterly prerogatives, practiced in the domestic sphere and redeemed in the public, explain the yeomanry's deep commitment to slavery and, ultimately, their ardent embrace of secession. By placing the yeomanry in the center of the drama, McCurry offers a significant reinterpretation of this volatile society on the road to Civil War. Through careful and creative use of a wide variety of archival sources, she brings vividly to life the small worlds of yeoman households, and the larger world of the South Carolina Low Country, the plantation South, and nineteenth-century America.
Includes list of preachers in the Circuit, 1827-1881; churches represented include Bethesda, Ebenezer, El Bethel, Fort Lawn, Lando, Mt. Moriah, Mt. Prospect, Pleasant Grove, and Richburg.
Trans-Allegheny Pioneers is, without a doubt, one of the most celebrated accounts of life on the Virginia frontier ever written. The author's focal point is the region of the New River-Kanawha in present-day Montgomery and Pulaski counties, Virginia. This is essential reading for anyone interested in frontier history or the genealogies of mid-18th century families who resided in the Valley of Virginia.
Culled from the records of the National Register of Historic Places, a roster of all types of significant properties across the United States, African American Historic Places includes over 800 places in 42 states and two U.S. territories that have played a role in black American history. Banks, cemeteries, clubs, colleges, forts, homes, hospitals, schools, and shops are but a few of the types of sites explored in this volume, which is an invaluable reference guide for researchers, historians, preservationists, and anyone interested in African American culture. Also included are eight insightful essays on the African American experience, from migration to the role of women, from the Harlem Renaissance to the Civil Rights Movement. The authors represent academia, museums, historic preservation, and politics, and utilize the listed properties to vividly illustrate the role of communities and women, the forces of migration, the influence of the arts and heritage preservation, and the struggles for freedom and civil rights. Together they lead to a better understanding of the contributions of African Americans to American history. They illustrate the events and people, the designs and achievements that define African American history. And they pay powerful tribute to the spirit of black America.
