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Language : english Location : Main Library - South Carolina Room Location : Otranto Road Library - Young Adult Area Location : St. Paul's / Hollywood Library - Biography Area Location : West Ashley Library - Fiction Area Publisher : university of south carolina press Format : Biographies

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Sanctifying slavery & politics in South Carolina : the life of Reverend Alexander Garden, 1685-1756.

Authors : Witzig, Fred E., author

Subjects: Slavery -- South Carolina -- History -- 18th century; BiographiesSouth Carolina -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; South Carolina -- Politics and government -- To 1775Church of England -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Clergy -- Biography...

Availability: 1 Holdings

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Resolute rebel : General Roswell S. Ripley, Charleston's gallant defender.

Authors : Bennett, Chet

Subjects: Authors, American -- 19th century -- BiographyUnited States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865Confederate States of America. Army -- Officers -- Biography; United States. Army -- Officers -- Biography...

Availability: 1 Holdings

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A sober desire for history : William Gilmore Simms as historian.

Authors : Busick, Sean R., 1969-

Subjects: Historical fiction, American -- History and criticism; Literature and history -- South Carolina; Historiography -- South CarolinaSouth Carolina -- Historiography; South Carolina -- In literatureSimms, William Gilmore, 1806-1870 -- Knowledge -- History; Simms, William Gilmore, 1806-1870 -- Knowledge -- South Carolina

Availability: 2 Holdings

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Martyr of the American Revolution : the execution of Isaac Hayne, South Carolinian.

Authors : Bragg, C. L., 1957-

Subjects: South Carolina -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Biography; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- BiographyHayne, Isaac, 1745-1781; Hayne, Isaac, 1745-1781 -- Death and burial

Availability: 1 Holdings

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Blessed experiences : genuinely Southern, proudly Black.

Authors : Clyburn, James

Subjects: Legislators -- Biography; African Americans -- South Carolina -- Biography; BiographiesUnited States. Congress. House -- BiographyClyburn, James

Availability: 6 Holdings

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Crescent moon over Carolina : William Moultrie and American liberty.

Authors : Bragg, C. L., 1957-

Subjects: Governors -- South Carolina -- Biography; BiographiesSouth Carolina -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Biography; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- BiographyMoultrie, William, 1730-1805

Availability: 2 Holdings

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The magnificent Mays : a biography of Benjamin Elijah Mays.

Authors : Roper, John Herbert, 1948-

Subjects: African American college presidents -- Biography; College presidents -- Biography; African American educators -- BiographySouth Carolina -- BiographyMorehouse College (Atlanta, Ga.) -- Presidents -- Biography; Howard University -- Faculty -- Biography...

Availability: 1 Holdings

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Promotion or the bottom of the river : the blue and gray naval careers of Alexander F. Warley, South Carolinian.

Authors : Stickney, John M. (John Monro)

Subjects: United States -- History, Naval -- 19th century; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Naval operations, ConfederateUnited States. Navy -- Officers -- Biography; Confederate States of America. Navy -- Officers -- BiographyWarley, Alexander F., 1823-1895

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The African American odyssey of John Kizell : a South Carolina slave returns to fight the slave trade in his African homeland.

Authors : Lowther, Kevin

Subjects: African Americans -- Colonization -- Sierra Leone; Slave trade -- Sierra Leone -- History; African American loyalists -- BiographySierra Leone -- History -- To 1896; Nova Scotia -- History -- 1763-1867Sierra Leone Company...

Availability: 2 Holdings

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Looking for Utopia : the life and times of John C. West.

Authors : Grose, Philip G., 1938-

Subjects: Governors -- Sourth Carolina -- Biography; Ambassadors -- Biography; BiographiesSouth Carolina -- Politics and government -- 1951-; United States -- Foreign relations -- Saudi Arabia; Saudi Arabia -- Foreign relations -- United StatesWest, John Carl, 1922-2004

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