More Books About Edgefield

Bush and Kemp are not the first authors to write about Edgefield. There Is Something About Edgefield is the latest book about this unique and distinctive place in South Carolina.

All God’s Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence by Fox Butterfield (reprint edition 2008)

In My Father’s House Are Many Mansions: Family and Community in Edgefield, South Carolina by Orville Vernon Burton (1987)

The Thurmond Family: A Black Lineage by Sameera V. Thurmond (1991) (copies also available directly from author)

Coroners’ Inquisitions on African Americans: covering the years 1838 to 1920: in Edgefield County, South Carolina by Sameera V. Thurmond (2007)

(copies also available directly from author)

Selected Newspaper Articles from the Edgefield Advertiser, Edgefield Chronicle and Weekly Monitor relating to African Americans from period September 1833 to May 1900 by Sameera V. Thurmond (2008)

(copies available directly from author)

Slave Records of Edgefield County, South Carolina, 1785-1865 by Gloria Ramsey Lucas (2011)

The Way It Was by Mattie Brown (2012)

Our Ancestors, Our Stories by Harris Bailey Jr., Bernice Alexander Bennett, Ellen Levone Butler, Ethel Dailey, and Vincent Sheppard (2014)

This Far By Faith: My Story, Secrets and All by Lillian O. Washington (2016)

Comes to the Light: Learning about the Entangled Families of Edgefield, South Carolina by Donya C. Williams (2017)