Out of the hundreds of published slave narratives,only a handful exist specific to South Carolina, and most of these are not readily available to modern readers. Edited by Susanna Ashton, I Belong to South Carolina restores to print seven slave narratives documenting the lived realities of slavery as it existed across the Palmetto State’s upcountry, midlands, and lowcountry, from plantation culture to urban servitude. First published between the late eighteenth century and the dawn of the twentieth, these richly detailed firsthand accounts present a representative cross section of slave experiences, from religious awakenings and artisan apprenticeships to sexual exploitations and harrowing escapes. In their distinctive individual voices, narrators celebrate and mourn the lives of fellow slaves, contemplate the meaning of freedom, and share insights into the social patterns and cultural controls exercised during a turbulent period in American history.

Each narrative is preceded by an introduction to place its content and publication history in historical context. The volume also features an afterword surveying other significant slave narratives and related historical documents on South Carolina. I Belong to South Carolina reinserts a chorus of powerful voices of the dispossessed into South Carolina’s public history, reminding us of the cruelties of the past and the need for vigilant guardianship of liberty in the present and future.

Susanna Ashton is an associate professor and associate chair in the Department of English at Clemson University. She is the author of Collaborators in Literary America, 1870–1920 and co-editor of These “Colored” United States: African American Essays from the 1920s.

June 25, 2010

12:30-1:30 pm

Spartanburg Regional History Museum presents Dr. Lawrence Allen Heavrin: An Autobiography – A model for setting down the records of one’s life

In this presentation, Lawrence Heavrin, physician and author, presents an impressive model of how to record the experiences of one’s life. Larry Heavrin’s massive two-volume work documents the varied experience of an American physician. His military service in the U.S. Navy took him from the Great Lakes to Charleston, South Carolina, where he also attended medical school. In pursuit of his career as a family doctor, he traveled far and wide, from North Carolina to Alaska, finally settling in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Come hear secrets pertaining to valuable family history and how to go about setting down your own family records. In volume one are vivid accounts of his life and work in the several small towns and cities where he practiced. Of special interest are the accounts of his Charleston and Alaska sojourns, as well as the stories and vignettes of various patients, colleagues and friends he met in the course of his long career. Both volumes are enlivened by the inclusion of numerous photographs. They also contain valuable finding aids which make them useful and accessible to a wide reading public.

$5.00 apiece

Lunches Welcome

Limited seating – Call 596-3501 or email njefferies@spartanburghistory.org to reserve your space.

Chapman Cultural Center

Moseley Building 1st Floor Meeting Room

200 East St. John Street

Spartanburg, S.C. 29306

New 317 page book on the Brice Family of Fairfield County, SC who came over
from Ireland ca 1785 and related families: Boyce, Brice, Caldwell, Clowney,
Douglass, Gaston, Simonton, Strong, etc. Genealogy goes back to Robert the
Bruce 1065 in Scotland. Many pictures in color with history of Brice’s
Crossroads Civil War Battle.

Available in printed form, soft cover with spiral binding: $35.00
postpaid.
CD $20.00 in PDF format (Adobe Reader) postpaid.

Betty J. Carson
368 Sease Hill Road
Lexington, SC 29073
bcarson1@sc.rr.com

LAWRENCE ALLEN HEAVRIN AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY a two volume book is now available for purchase online. Tom Johnson, PHD, Librarian Emeritus University of South Carolina, Columbia has written the following review.

LAWRENCE ALLEN HEAVRIN: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY is an impressive model of how to go about setting down the record of one’s life. Larry Heavrin’s massive two-volume work documents the varied experience of an American physician who largely grew up and was educated in Illinois. His military service in the U.S. Navy took him from Great Lakes to Charleston, SC where he also wound up going to medical school. In pursuit of his career as a family doctor he
ranged far and wide, from North Carolina to Alaska, finally settling in
Spartanburg, South Carolina. In addition to the valuable family history obtained in volume one are vivid accounts of his life and work in the several small towns and cities where he practiced. Of special interest are the accounts of his Charleston and Alaskan sojourns, as well as the stories and vignettes of various patients, colleagues and friends he met in the course of his long career. Both volumes are enlivened by the inclusion of numerous photographs. They also contain valuable finding aids, which make them useful and accessible to a wide reading public.
I will paste the two links for the two volumes of my book. When you click on the red preview band it will give you the option to view it on the full screen. When that is done it is possible to read the pages that are displayed. Volume II will include narratives and pictures from the time I moved to Spartanburg through 2008.
Here is the link for volume I. http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/invited/788488/1e730ecc8403c398f16b167eec9e84a8

This one is for volume II http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/invited/787113/86dbefee4317b361f3f71fb0ff38c531
After you have looked at the preview of the book please look at the bottom of the page and send me a comment to let me know that you have received this announcement.

View my book at Blurb:

http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/invited/808153/ef7311016fa07f846d875de087796947

Thank you,
Larry Heavrin

The Greer Heritage Museum at 106 S. Main St. announces its programs for Black History Month during February. Unless noted the programs run during the regular hours of 10 am to 4 pm.

February 27 Fashion Show courtesy of Gregory’s Boutique: The show will feature traditional African dress to current fashions from Gregory’s Boutique on W. Poinsett St. Included will be models showing the hats worn at African American churches on Sundays.

For children there is a scavenger hunt to locate artifacts related to Greer’s black history.

There is no admittance fee to the museum. All programs are free. For information, call the museum at 864-877-3377.

Press contact: Director Joada Hiatt 877-4626 or Program Coordinator Maria Dowell 268-5073.

He seems to be an interesting character of Upstate South Carolina’s history in the Reconstruction Period. One site about him is titled “Manson Sherrill Jolly, South Carolina’s Own Jesse James, Rebel Hero Or Renegade Murderer?”

He’s an interesting part of Anderson history as well as that of South Carolina.

You may have already noticed search boxes like this.

Feel free to use these search boxes to see if you can find other books or materials that might be of use to you in your research, for reference or just for something different. Thanks.