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Memories of Carolinian immigrants : autobiographies, diaries, and letters from colonial times to the present / edited by Andreas Lixl.

Other author/creatorLixl-Purcell, Andreas, 1951-
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoLanham, Md. : University Press Of America, ©2009.
Descriptionxxxv, 269 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
Subject(s)
Contents Recollections of colonial immigrants. Christoph von Graffenried : account of the founding of New Bern ; Robert Witherspoon : memories of a South Carolinian settler ; James Murray : letters from a Scottish pioneer ; Olaudah Equiano : an African's account ; August Spangenberg : the Moravian diary ; Mary Gloud : testimony in the Indian book ; Janet Schaw : journal of an English lady -- Memories of revolution, peace, and war, 1776-1865. Christiana Teulon : declaration of a Revolutionary War widow ; Joseph Salvador : letter from Charleston ; The confession of Monday Gell ; Chang and Eng Bunker : family letters ; Omar ibn Said : autobiography of a slave in North Carolina ; Charles Ball : slave migration ; Lena Pearlstine Berkman : passage from Poland ; Hermann Bokum : a refugee's testimony ; Loreta Velazquez : Civil War exploits and travels -- New Carolinians in the new South, 1865-1938. Nicholas Said : memories of an African Muslim ; John Wagener : South Carolina, home of the industrious immigrant ; Nettie McCormick Henley : Scottish legacies ; Louis Philippe Guigou : Waldensian trail of faith ; George Mehales : Dixie lunch memories ; Anna Gelson Berendt : from Ellis Island to Yonges Island ; Hugh MacRay : bringing immigrants to the South ; Thelma Wingate : Scandinavians follow the sea ; Constantin Geraris : life of a Greek restaurateur -- Modern day memories of Carolinian immigrants. Max Heller : memories of a Greenville mayor ; Durba Ahmed : not as American as apple pie ; Gisela Hood : Cold War bride ; The Khalid family : every place that you call yours is God's ; Kwame Dawes : a Jamaican father ; Seira Reyes : an artist's journey ; Diana de Anda : versos ; Tria Her : Hmong interview ; Hispanic voices : memories of new Carolinians ; Xiolan Zhuang : my life before and after coming to the Carolinas ; Jaime Farrugia : my immigrant story.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 241-256) and index.
LCCN 2008943960
ISBN9780761844136 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0761844139 ( cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780761844143 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0761844147 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780761844150 (ebook)
ISBN0761844155 (ebook)

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Joyner NC Stacks CT259 .M46 2009 ✔ Available Place Hold