Edisto Island, 1861 to 2006
Subtitle: ruin, recovery and rebirth
By: Charles Spencer
Publisher: History Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Charleston, S.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781596291850
Subjects: Social life and customs; Race relations; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877); Freedmen; Pictorial works; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-210) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Civil War on Edisto. Secession at last; The drums of not-so-distant war; The Calhoun artillery and the Rebel Troop; The blockading fleet arrives; Evacuate the islands! The "Black Republic" of Edisto Island; The Confederate "Expedition" of January 1862; The empty island, 1862-1865; The capture of the nine Edisto "Scouts" in 1863; title: Edistonians in the Civil War. The Rebel Troop. Edisto men in other Confederate units; General Micah Jenkins and Captain Cato Seabrook; Two Confederate surgeons from Edisto Island; General Saxton's U.S. Colored Troops; Edisto men in the Union Army; title: Edisto's planters return home. General Saxton's dilemma; The Edisto planters petition President Johnson; A change of policy in Washington; Restoration of possession: the Edisto plantations and churches; title: Edisto's freedmen: the first years. Edisto's freed people return from exile; The Freedmen's Bureau on Edisto; The freedmen's land certificates; General Howard's visit to Edisto Island; Edisto's new economic policy; The 1866 labor contracts; 1866 outcomes; The end of the freedmen's land titles; The 1867 labor contracts; Economic conditions on Edisto in 1867 and 1868; Law and order on Edisto Island; The first freedmen's schools on Edisto; Permanent freedmen's schools; title: Reconstruction and beyond on Edisto. Edisto's economy from 1865 to 1920; Race relations during Reconstruction; Townsend Mikell: the indispensable man; New leadership in Edisto's African American community; Island transportation; Bailey's Store and the Old Post Office; Five hurricanes and an earthquake; Edisto's white churches retrench and survive; Edisto's African American churches grow and multiply; Edisto evolves a segregated  but comprehensive school system; Edisto in state politics after the Civil War; title: After cotton: reinventing Edisto. The Dawhoo Bridge and the Intracoastal Waterway; Sea-island cotton: "The king" is dead; What comes after cotton? Whatever happened to the old places? The birth (and rebirth) of Edisto Beach; Edisto Beach in the "Lybrand Era"; Edisto Beach becomes a year-round community; Oysters and shrimp: Edisto acquires a seafood industry; Perry's Store; Parker Connor, Erline Jenkins, Marian Murray and the Edisto School; Edisto as a haven for artists and writers; McKinley Washington Jr.; title: Population density; title: Open land; title: Water quality; title: Governance; title: Historic preservation; title: A sense of community.