RURAL POOR RELIEF IN COLONIAL SOUTH CAROLINA

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The Rural Program A New Effort by The Duke Endowment to Help Strengthen Rural Communities in North Carolina and South Carolina The Current Situation: Economic Decline in Rural North and South Carolina

These global economic trends tend to favor large metropolitan areas. For reasons of industrial clustering, human capital, and financial resources, metro areas have captured most of the jobs in the new economy. Between 1978 and 1997 employment in metro areas in the South increased by 63.7% while employment in nonmetro areas grew by only 28.9%. And in many nonmetro counties lower-paying jobs in s...

Rural Medical Relief

Newsletter Exploring the Material Culture of Death in Enslaved African Cemeteries in Colonial Virginia and South Carolina

Introduction In colonial America, throughout the Southeast region of the country, an invisible line once existed (Figure 1). With no identified boundaries, that line ran roughly in a southwest direction from the Chesapeake to a point in the Low Country. That line separated two politically, environmentally and socially disparate regions inhabited by culturally distinct yet similar groups of ensl...

Clinical trial recruitment in rural South Carolina: a comparison of investigators' perceptions and potential participant eligibility.

INTRODUCTION Participation in clinical trial (CT) research can help decrease health disparities in rural communities. The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions of principal investigators (PIs) regarding CT participation barriers and recruitment efforts in rural South Carolina, USA and to assess the actual pool of potential CT participants in rural and urban South Carolina. The ul...