Caroline E. Grego, Hurricane Jim Crow: How the Great Sea Island Storm of 1893 Shaped the Lowcountry South. University of North Carolina Press, 2022.
Caroline E. Grego, Hurricane Jim Crow: How the Great Sea Island Storm of 1893 Shaped the Lowcountry South. University of North Carolina Press, 2022.

Summary/Abstract: Book review: Caroline E. Grego, Hurricane Jim Crow: How the Great Sea Island Storm of 1893 Shaped the Lowcountry South. University of North Carolina Press, 2022. ISBN 9781469671352, 312 p. What does it mean to speak of “symbiosis” between humanity and nature in a region shaped by slavery, racial capitalism, and environmental catastrophe? In Hurricane Jim Crow: How the Great Sea Island Storm of 1893 Shaped the Lowcountry South, Caroline Grego reimagines this relationship not as harmony but as entanglement, fraught, contingent, and deeply racialized. By positioning the 1893 Great Sea Island Storm as what she calls a “force of contingency,” Grego argues that environmental disaster did not merely devastate South Carolina’s Lowcountry but actively reshaped its political economy.

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