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A Son of the Carolinas: A Story of the Hurricane upon the Sea Islands is an 1898 book by Elisabeth Carpenter Satterthwait about the effects on the local people of the 1893 Sea Islands hurricane which devastated the South Carolina coastal lowlands in late August of that year. The book is noted for its "well-told story," "novelty of theme and locality" and its use of the native dialect of the Gullah islanders of African descent.

Set on Cat Island southeast of Beaufort, South Carolina, Satterthwait's narrative gives a historical fiction account of the storm in pseudo-autobiographical fashion, expressing Satterthwait's Post-Civil War Reconstruction Society of Friends (Quaker) philosophy. She modified her reproduction of the dialogue to support clarity in understanding by readers unfamiliar with the Gullah language. The book been republished twice, in microform in 1970, and by Books for Libraries Press in 1972.

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Satterthwait was a daughter of Robert and Phebe Carpenter of Harrison, Westchester County, New York, where she married in 1884 to Charles E. Satterthwait of Aiken, South Carolina, in a ceremony reported in The Friends' Intelligencer, a Quaker periodical news publication.

References

1. Library of Congress: A son of the Carolinas : a story of the hurricane upon The Sea Islands, accessed 24 Dec 2011.
2. William and Fran Marscher: The Great Sea Island Storm of 1893, Mercer University Press, Macon, Ga., 2004, ISBN 0-86554-867-6.
3. Book Notes, A Monthly Literary Magazine and Review of New Books, Mrs. Henry Siegel, ed., Siegel-Cooper Co. Book Department, New York, New Series, Vol. II, No. 4, April 1899, p. 252.
4. Neal Dorst: Subject: J4) What fictional books, plays, poems, and movies have been written involving tropical cyclones?, Last Revised: May 11, 2010.
5. Katharine M. Jones: Port Royal Under Six Flags, The Story of the Sea Islands, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., Indianapolis & New York, 1960, Part XIV, "The Big Storm of 1893," pp. 317-332.
6. The Island Packet & The Beaufort Gazette: Ask & Answer: Feb. 2, 2010 Archived May 3, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, Published Tuesday, February 2, 2010.
7. Elisabeth Carpenter Satterthwait: A Son of the Carolinas, A story of the Hurricane upon The Sea Islands, Henry Altemus, Philadelphia, Pa., 1898. pp. 5-6 (Preface).
8. Books for Libraries Press, Freeport, N.Y., http://isbndb.com/d/publisher/books_for_libraries_press.html Archived 2010-02-10 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 24 Dec 2011.
9. The Friends' Intelligencer, John Comly, Publishing Agent, Philadelphia, Pa., 1883-84, Vol. XL, No. 52 (2nd Month 9, 1884), p. 826.

• Historical novels
• Novels set in South Carolina
• 1898 American novels
• Fiction set in 1893
• Gullah culture