Hurricane Jim Crow: How the Great Sea Island Storm of 1893 Shaped the Lowcountry South.
The article reviews *Hurricane Jim Crow: How the Great Sea Island Storm of 1893 Shaped the Lowcountry South*, which examines the 1893 hurricane’s role in reshaping South Carolina’s Lowcountry during the transition from Reconstruction to Jim Crow. The book argues that the storm acted as a “force of c...
| Publicado en: | Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies & Theory Vol. 12; no. 1; pp. 192 - 196 |
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Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj, Faculty of Letters
Jul2026
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