Re: Re: Hugenots of the South - Tony and Julie Howell
Subject: Re: Re: Hugenots of the South
From: Tony and Julie Howell
Date: February 22, 2001

verily........

Frances Wimberly wrote:

 Oh about history; don't feel bad;  how I hated it in school, including
> college and the humiliation; it was all about memorizing dates and retaining
> what you read; left me out and yet I wanted to know history and family
> geneology long before the 1st grade and that was many moons ago. I can't do
> chronological order and this computer of my younger son's and the Internet
> has helped me tremendously; I can remember things I never thought I could.
> Isn't there a website www.Americanhistory.com   ????? Can watch Public
> Television and can learn more about history and remember  it in an hour more
> than I think I learned for 3 yrs. in school. Can't afford cable and not
> going to pay for that mess for a few good channels. Same was true for math;
> but I could paint, whoopee; you know how people regard Fine Arts majors!
> frances
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gale Sanders" 
> To: 
> Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 14:53 PM
> Subject: Re: Re: "Hugenots of the South"
>
> > Thank you Roger for a most informative history lesson.  I truly believe
> that
> > by learning about history, it will help us all to understand the great
> > mirgrations that were happening even before different peoples came into
> the
> > USA.
> >
> > I know that the DNA project that is going on is trying to undertake this
> > great task by getting people to donate their DNA plus 4 generations.  I
> > myself have always wondererd about where certain groups of peoples came
> from
> > and why.
> >
> > Thanks again,
> > Gale Sanders
> >
> >
> > ----Original Message Follows----
> > From: "Roger A Lucheta" 
> > Reply-To: [email protected]
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: Re: "Hugenots of the South"
> > Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 09:00:47 -1000
> >
> > Gale:
> >
> > Hugenouts were French Calvinists, who arose shortly after the Reformation
> > in Geneva.  If you're Protestant, you believe that the French king
> > persecuted them terribly - to include the St. Bartholemews Day Massacre -
> > ultimately leading to an exodus of many of them from France.  (If you're
> > Catholic - which I am - you're supposed to believe that they were
> > antisocial troublemakers who brought their troubles on themselves).    As
> a
> > group, they were a very industrious group.  One of the venues of their
> > exile was South Carolina (another was Germany, where their descendents
> > became some of the leading industrial, commercial, and even military
> > families - Krupps, etc. - on a more somber note, Hermann Goering was of
> > Hugenot extraction.)  After the French Revolution, when freedom of
> religion
> > was established, Hugenouts came out of hiding in France and became a
> small,
> > but very successful, group in French commerce.
> >
> > The influence of the South Carolina Hugenouts is best shown in the fact
> > that the original constitution of South Carolina was written by the French
> > philosopher Montaisque, whose thinking also guided the writers of the U.S.
> > Constitution.  Much of Mantaisque's constitution survives to this day in
> > the South Carolina Constitution.
> >
> > Most Hugenout congregations ultimately joined up with the Presbyterians,
> > who (at least historically) are also Calvinistic.  There are, at most,
> only
> > two Hugenout congregations in the US - one in New York and one in
> > Charleston - and the New York one is more of a historical society than an
> > active, witnessing congregation.
> >
> > For more interesting Hugenout stuff, you might look up - in French history
> > - Henry of Navarre and the period of Cardinal Richelieu.
> >
> > Roger Lucheta
> > My bod' may be on Johnston Island, but my heart's in Pickens County.
> >
> >
> >

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