Port Royal Sound Basin, Including Edisto Beach, Spring Island, and Palmetto Bluff, South Carolina

2018 ◽  
pp. 97-173
Keyword(s):  
South Carolina ◽  
Port Royal

Yellow Jack

2020 ◽  
pp. 94-109
Author(s):  
Charles D. Ross
Keyword(s):  
South Carolina ◽  
Yellow Fever ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Late Summer ◽  
Port Royal ◽  
Key West ◽  
Yellow Flag ◽  
The Us ◽  
The City

This chapter describes a mosquito-borne illness, referred to as Yellow Jack by the sailors because of the yellow flag flown by quarantined ships, that arrived in Nassau during late summer. The chapter states that the blockade runner Kate also brought yellow fever with her to Wilmington, and by mid-August, the city was going through a devastating epidemic. The disease also found its way to Key West, Florida, and Beaufort, and Port Royal in South Carolina. As the fever raged in late July, the amount of shipping arriving and leaving Nassau dwindled to pre-war levels. The chapter then shifts to discuss a hindrance to the post-epidemic resurgence of the blockading bonanza — the appearance of Charles Wilkes, the US naval officer who had pulled Mason and Slidell off their boat. It elaborates the mission of West Indies Squadron, under the command of Wilkes, to destroy Florida and the new Confederate cruiser that had emerged from England with Raphael Semmes in command, the 290 (soon-to-be known as Alabama).

scholarly journals Tidal and Storm Impacts on Hydrodynamics and Sediment Dynamics in an Energetic Ebb Tidal Delta

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 810 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kehui Xu ◽  
P. Ansley Wren ◽  
Yanxia Ma
Keyword(s):  
South Carolina ◽  
Reference Site ◽  
Time Series Data ◽  
Beach Nourishment ◽  
Hurricane Sandy ◽  
Sediment Dynamics ◽  
Series Data ◽  
Port Royal ◽  
Sediment Mobility ◽  
Ebb Tidal Delta

Bottom-mounted instrumentation was deployed at two sites on a large sandy shoal of an ebb tidal delta offshore of the Port Royal Sound of South Carolina of USA to collect hydrodynamics and sediment dynamics data. One site (“borrow site”) was 2 km offshore in a dredge pit for nearby beach nourishment and the other site (“reference site”) was 10 km offshore. In situ time-series data were collected during two periods after the dredging: 15 March–12 June (spring) and 18 August–18 November (fall) of 2012. Data at the reference site indicated active migrating bedforms from centimeters to decimeters tall, and sediment concentrations were highly associated with semidiurnal and fortnightly tidal cycles. In the fall deployment, waves at the reference site were higher than those at the shallow borrow site. Both Tropical Storm Beryl and Hurricane Sandy formed high waves and strong currents but did not generate the greatest sediment fluxes. The two sites were at different depths and distances offshore, and waves contributed more to sediment mobility at the reference site whereas tidal forcing was the key controlling factor at the borrow site. This study provides valuable datasets for the selection of sites, prediction of pit infilling, and the modeling of storm impact in future beach nourishment and coastal restoration projects.

A Moravian Mission and the Origins of Evangelical Protestantism among Slaves in the Carolina Lowcountry

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 38-63
Author(s):  
Aaron Spencer Fogleman
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
South Carolina ◽  
Leadership Role ◽  
Global Missions ◽  
Evangelical Protestantism ◽  
Port Royal ◽  
White Resistance ◽  
Evangelical Protestant

This article investigates the German Moravian slave mission in South Carolina (1738-1740), including its role in beginning evangelical Protestantism among Lowcountry slaves. It documents responses of planters, townspeople, and especially slaves and shows how the mission was connected to the transatlantic evangelical Protestant awakening. Following Wesley’s brief encounter in 1737 and preceding Whitefield’s visit in 1740 and the subsequent slave revival in Port Royal, the Moravians offered sustained contact with the new religious style. Several slaves responded enthusiastically, including a woman named Diana of Port Royal, who played a leadership role, while others defiantly rejected their message as the religion of barbaric masters. Disease, white resistance after the Stono Rebellion, internal problems, et al. forced the mission to close, but its brief history reveals the interests, struggles, hopes, and fears of slaves, planters, and missionaries in the mid-eighteenth century and how they were connected to other Atlantic and global missions.

Learning from emancipation: The Port Royal Experiment and transition theory

2021 ◽  
pp. 0308518X2110111
Author(s):  
E Melanie DuPuis
Keyword(s):  
South Carolina ◽  
Political Ecology ◽  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Evolutionary Economics ◽  
Historical Case Study ◽  
Historical Case ◽  
Conceptual Tool ◽  
Port Royal ◽  
Transition Studies

Over the last decade, transition studies has emerged as an intellectual field aimed at answering the question: How do we get to a more sustainable world? Emerging from a combination of science and technology studies, evolutionary economics, and studies of innovation, transition studies has become a widely used conceptual tool to frame pathways to a more sustainable future. However, its embrace of a systems approach to change, I will argue, transition studies remains unengaged with critical theories of change in sociology, history, and political economy. In addition, geographers have critiqued transition studies for its lack of attention to spatial relationships. Using a particular historical case study of transition in a particular place—the Port Royal “Free Labor” emancipation experiments in the South Carolina Sea Islands during the Civil War—this paper explores both the weaknesses and the strengths of transition studies as a conceptual tool, and how attention to critical and spatial approaches to change can improve our understanding of transitions. In particular, I will show how a political ecology, as a critical and spatial approach, can improve transition studies. I will use a historical case, the Port Royal emancipation experiments, to illustrate how the addition of political ecology to transition studies can improve one’s understanding of sustainable transition pathways.

scholarly journals Geohydrologic data from Port Royal Sound, Beaufort County, South Carolina

1986 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.A. Burt ◽  
D.L. Belval ◽  
Michael Crouch ◽  
W.B. Hughes
Keyword(s):  
South Carolina ◽  
Port Royal ◽  
Beaufort County

Rehearsing for Reconstruction: The Archipelagic Afterlives of the Port Royal Experiment

2020 ◽  
Vol 92 (2) ◽  
pp. 281-307
Author(s):  
Todd Carmody
Keyword(s):  
South Carolina ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Social Study ◽  
Black Body ◽  
Social Experiment ◽  
Sea Islands ◽  
Free Labor ◽  
Port Royal ◽  
Cultural Legacy ◽  
Civil War Era

Abstract This essay traces the cultural legacy of the Port Royal Experiment, the Civil War–era social experiment in free labor conducted by Union forces on the Sea Islands of South Carolina and Georgia. Whereas literary and cultural historians typically focus on the “discovery” of slave spirituals by Northern missionaries and educators at Port Royal, this essay tracks how later writers, performers, and sociologists returned to the Sea Islands to reimagine the promise of free labor. The archive thus assembled includes Civil War–era ethnographies, memoirs, and reports; the scholarly monographs in UNC Press’s Social Study Series; and DuBose Heyward’s popular “Negro novel” Porgy (1925). Across this interdisciplinary tradition, writers of various stripes seek by turns to celebrate and contain the threat of the free but noncapitalist black body. The latter figure, recalling the disability category’s historical role in sorting people into work-based or need-based systems of social distribution, is commonly represented as disabled. Ultimately, the essay documents a dual development in US political economy as the marginalization of contraband slaves as capitalist laborers on the Sea Islands—the “failure” of the Port Royal Experiment—gives way to the consolidation of “black culture,” a success of a different kind.

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