Colonial State Papers

Martin, Jason

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“…Members of the committee included Pompey Riley, a black Republican pension agent; John Lindsey, a black pensioner and political leader; London Simmons, also a black pension recipient and Republican leader in Bluffton; and Moes Bruin, whom Martin described as a "creme de la creme hog thief." 42 Eugene Gregorie, a white planter from the Pocotaligo section of Beaufort County, asked William Elliott, a prominent white Democrat from Beaufort, to seek an audience with Clara Barton to discuss the "common evil" the Red Cross was inflicting upon the area's white planters. Gregorie and his fellow planters believed that "indiscriminate issue of rations to the lazy negroes of this section" was hurting their ability to recruit black workers during the pivotal spring planting season.…”

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“A Grim Memorial of Its Thorough Work of Devastation and Desolation”: Race and Memory in the Aftermath of the 1893 Sea Island Storm

Bland¹

2018

J. gilded age prog. era

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“‘A Grim Memorial of Its Thorough Work of Devastation and Desolation’: Race and Memory in the Aftermath of the 1893 Sea Island Storm” explores the political struggle that ensued in the aftermath of the August 1893 hurricane. The storm, which decimated the predominantly African American South Carolina Sea Islands, required a nine-month relief effort to assist the region's citizens in their time of need. Led by the American Red Cross, the relief effort became a new proxy for a long-standing debate over the legacy of Reconstruction and the meaning of black citizenship. This battle, waged by leaders in South Carolina's Democratic Party, Red Cross officials, writers in the national press, former abolitionists, and African Americans living in the South Carolina Sea Islands, exposed growing fissures in how Americans understood notions of charity and self-help. More than a battleground for still-nascent ideas of disaster relief, the political turmoil that followed the 1893 Sea Island Storm played a critical role in redefining the racial boundaries of the United States on the eve of the Jim Crow era.

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“A Grim Memorial of Its Thorough Work of Devastation and Desolation”: Race and Memory in the Aftermath of the 1893 Sea Island Storm

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2018

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Colonial State Papers

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“A Grim Memorial of Its Thorough Work of Devastation and Desolation”: Race and Memory in the Aftermath of the 1893 Sea Island Storm

“A Grim Memorial of Its Thorough Work of Devastation and Desolation”: Race and Memory in the Aftermath of the 1893 Sea Island Storm

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