Foreword / Orville Vernon Burton -- Introduction / Timothy P. Grady and Melissa Walker -- Mineral water, dancing, and amusements : the development of tourism in the nineteenth-century Upcountry / Melissa Walker -- "Education has breathed over the scene" : Robert H. Reid and the Reidville schools, 1857-1905 / Timothy P. Grady -- Prelude to Little Bighorn : the Seventh U.S. Cavalry in the South Carolina Upcountry / Andrew H. Myers -- "At present we have no school at all which is truly unfortunate" : freedmen and schools in Abbeville County, 1865-1875 / Katherine D. Cann -- From slavery to freedom : African American life in post-Civil War Spartanburg / Diane C. Vecchio -- African Americans and the Presbyterian Church : the Clinton Presbyterian Church and Sloan's Chapel / Nancy Snell Griffith -- "Murder takes the angel shape of justice" : rape, reputation, and retribution in nineteenth-century Spartanburg / Carol Loar -- "May the Lord keep down hard feelings" : the Woodrow evolution controversy and the 1884 Presbyterian Synod of South Carolina / Robert B. McCormick.