Author: Robin Doak
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 9781426300660
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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A history of South Carolina from its beginning as an English colony to 1788 when it became the eighth state.
Author: Robin Santos Doak
Publisher: National Geographic Kids
ISBN: 9781426300677
Category : South Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A history of South Carolina from its beginning as an English colony to 1788 when it became the eighth state.
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Publisher: Ned Danouma
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 510
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Author: Matthew Cannavale
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 9781426300325
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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An introduction to North Carolina's history during the U.S.'s colonial period.
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Category : Children's libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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Author: Patricia Causey Nichols
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 1643363492
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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The first detailed linguistic history of South Carolina, with a new preface by the author In Voices of Our Ancestors Patricia Causey Nichols offers the first detailed linguistic history of South Carolina as she explores the contacts between distinctive language cultures in the colonial and early federal eras and studies the dialects that evolved even as English became paramount in the state. As language development reflects historical development, Nichols's work also serves as a new avenue of inquiry into South Carolina's social history from the epoch of Native American primacy to the present day. Because Charleston was among the foremost colonial American seaports, South Carolina experienced a diverse influx of cultures and languages from the onset, drawing influences from Native Americans, enslaved African Americans, and a plethora of European peoples—Scots-Irish, English, Jewish, German, and French Huguenot chief among them. Nichols tells the richly complex story of language contact from groups representing three continents and myriad cultures. In examining how South Carolinians spoke in public and private we glean much about how they developed a common culture while still honoring as best they could the heritages and tongues of their ancestors. Nichols pays particular attention to the development of the Gullah language among the coastal African American peoples and the ways in which this language—and others of South Carolina's early inhabitants—continues to influence the communication and culture of the state's current populations. Nichols's synthetic treatment of language history makes expert use of primary source materials and is further enhanced by the author's field research with Gullah-speaking African Americans and with descendants of Native Americans, as well as her keen observation of her own European American community in South Carolina. Through her deft analysis of contemporary language variations and regional and ethnic speech communities, she advances our understanding of how diverse the South Carolina experience has been, from the lowcountry to the upcountry and all points in between, and yet how the need to communicate shared experiences and values has united the state's population with a common meaningful language in which the diverse voices of our ancestors can still be heard. In a new preface, Nichols reflects on the growing diversity of the United States as a whole and how relationships across communities shape language and culture.
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Category : Booksellers and bookselling
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Author: Kathleen DuVal
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 0742564649
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
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This reader provides students with key documents from colonial American history, including new English translations of non-English documents. The documents in this collection take the reader beyond the traditional story of the English colonies. Readers explore the Spanish, French, Dutch, Russian, German, and even Icelandic colonial efforts throughout North America, including California, New Mexico, Texas, the Great Plains, Louisiana, Florida, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New England. Throughout, the collection provides not only the perspectives of Europeans but also of Native Americans and Africans. By looking beyond traditional sources, students see the power and diversity of Native Americans and learn that European domination of the continent was not inevitable. They see different forms of slavery and ways that slaves dealt with their captivity. By considering multiple perspectives, students learn that colonial history was largely the attempts of various peoples to understand strangers and adapt them to their own will.
Author: Colin G. Calloway
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316184250
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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This study presents a broad coverage of Indian experiences in the American Revolution rather than Indian participation as allies or enemies of contending parties. Colin Calloway focuses on eight Indian communities as he explores how the Revolution often translated into war among Indians and their own struggles for independence. Drawing on British, American, Canadian and Spanish records, Calloway shows how Native Americans pursued different strategies, endured a variety of experiences, but were bequeathed a common legacy as result of the Revolution.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution
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Category : Constitutional amendments
Languages : en
Pages : 1384
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