Accessible and insightful scholarship on the Palmetto State
From the Piedmont to the Lowcountry, South Carolina is the site of countless engaging stories. The contributors to Carolina Currents share those stories, broadening our understanding of the state's unique and diverse histories and cultures. A venue for public-facing interdisciplinary scholarship, each volume presents a collection of essays that illuminate the complex interactions between the state's past and present.
Essays in volume 4 explore
• the resonance between Senegalese and Gullah basketmaking;
• Native American kinship at the close of the fifteenth century;
• reading instruction at the eighteenth-century Charleston Negro School;
• coverage of the Civil War in rural newspapers;
• the formation of a mixed-race Episcopal congregation in 1862 and subsequent efforts of the Episcopal Church to recruit Black communicants;
• the biography of Charles Spain, a prominent member of South Carolina's Baha'i community; and
• media and the policing of Black Americans in the 1990s.
An original poem by Ken Autrey, a review essay on the poetry of Glenis Redmond, and a series of reviews of recent books about South Carolina are also included.
Contributors: Richard A. Almeida, Ken Autrey, Jordan Blazer, Todd C. Couch, Thomas Felder Dorn, Jo Angela Edwins, Trystan Elliott, James Engelhardt, Catherine England, Daniel J. Ennis, Alita Pierson Feek, Ronald Green, Adam Houle, Erica Johnson, Dior Konaté, John J. Navin, S. Taylor Pierce, Meredith Reynolds, Bryan Rindfleisch, Aïda Rogers, Russell E. Ward, Casey Alane Wilson
Christopher D. Johnson is professor of English and Trustees' Research Scholar at Francis Marion University. A specialist in eighteenth-century literature, Johnson has published more than one hundred books, essays, and reviews.
