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Acknowledgments I wish to thank the two advisors who guided my graduate work: Helen Campbell Walker and Scott Reynolds Nelson. I am indebted to Professor Walker for her early influence on my studies, particularly for exposing me to the expansive range of literature that occupied her office floor. I am also deeply appreciative of the time and energy Professor Nelson spent reading and critiquing my work. Thank you for your humor and support, and for encouraging me to continue. I am grateful for the work and support of Professors Leisa Meyer, Carol Sheriff , James Whittenburg, and Melvin Ely, whose scholarship and excellent teaching have made me a better student of history. I am particularly indebted to Dr. Barbara Bellows Rockefeller, a remarkable teacher and ally, and Beverley Whitaker and Beverly Smit, who started it all. I would also like to thank the staffs of Swem Library at the College of William and Mary in Virginia; the South Caroliniana at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina; the South Carolina State Archives; and the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, D.C. To this list I must add David Mandel and the staff of the National Center for Civil and Human Rights; Chris Atwood, technology guru and patient teacher; and Alexander Moore of the University of South Carolina Press, who was always at the other end of an e-mail ready to help. Special thanks to the Madeira School in McLean, Virginia, for funding my final research trip to South Carolina, and to former members of its history department Sara Cleveland, John Campbell, Shields Sundberg, Larry Pratt, and Lydia Nussbaum; they are excellent colleagues and great friends. A “chapel speech shout-out” must also go to the history department of the Pomfret School in Pomfret, Connecticut. To my students, advisees, and dorm “children,” thank you for teaching me far more than I could have taught you. And please note that I did not use the word “impacted” as a verb once in this book. x [ Acknowledgments To my mother, a strong southern woman who faced adversity time and again, thank you for your courage and humor. I love you dearly and miss you terribly. And, finally, to my beautiful family—Pete, Jack, Xander, and “the twins”— thank you for your faith in me. You make every day an adventure, and I love you all more than you will ever know. ...

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