Description: "On an August night in 1893, the deadliest hurricane in South Carolina history struck the Lowcountry, killing thousands-almost all African American. But the devastating storm is only the beginning of this story. The hurricane's long effects intermingled with ongoing processes of economic downturn, racial oppression, resistance, and environmental change. In the Lowcountry, the political, economic, and social conditions of Jim Crow were inextricable from its environmental dimensions. This narrative history of a monumental disaster and its aftermath uncovers how Black workers and politicians, white landowners and former enslavers, northern interlocutors and humanitarians all met on the flooded ground of the coast and fought to realize very different visions for the region's future"--
Brief description: Caroline Grego is visiting assistant professor of history at Queens University of Charlotte.
Review Quotes:
"Caroline Grego's painstaking research and clear writing is evident . . . [she] draws on multiple sources to weave her account of a major storm and its short- and long-term consequences"--North Carolina Historical Review