Upheaval in Charleston : earthquake and murder on the eve of Jim Crow

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Title:

Author:

Williams, Susan Millar.

Personal Author:

Williams, Susan Millar.

Publication Information:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2011]

Physical Description:

xiv, 340 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Language:

English

Contents:

Preface : living with disaster -- The great shock -- Seeds of destruction -- "The earthquake is upon us!" -- A world turned upside down -- The earthquake hunters -- Aftershocks -- An angry God -- Labor Day -- "Bury the dead and feed the living" -- The comforts of science -- Relief -- Waiting for the apocalypse -- Rising from the ruins -- The old joy of combat -- Wrapped in the stars and stripes -- Fault lines -- Standing over a volcano -- Killing Captain Dawson -- The trial -- Epilogue : rebuilding the walls.

Personal Subject:

Dawson, Francis Warrington, 1840-1889.

Subject Term:

Charleston Earthquake, S.C., 1886 -- Social aspects.

African Americans -- Segregation -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 19th century.

Murder -- South Carolina -- Charleston.

Geographic Term:

Charleston (S.C.) -- History -- 19th century.

Charleston (S.C.) -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.

Charleston (S.C.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century.

Added Author:

Hoffius, Stephen G.