Money, trade, and power : the evolution of colonial South Carolina's plantation society / edited by Jack P. Greene, Rosemary Brana-Shute, and Randy J. Sparks.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Greene, Jack P.

Brana-Shute, Rosemary, 1944-

Sparks, Randy J.

Series:

Carolina lowcountry and the Atlantic world

The Carolina lowcountry and the Atlantic world

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plantation life.

Social conditions.

Economic conditions.

South Carolina--Economic conditions.

South Carolina.

South Carolina--Social conditions.

Plantation life--South Carolina.

South Carolina--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 400 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, [2001]

Contents:

Colonial South Carolina: An Introduction / Jack P. Greene vii

I Creating a Plantation Province: Proprietary Land Policies and Early Settlement Patterns / Meaghan N. Duff 1

II The Huguenots of Proprietary South Carolina: Patterns of Migration and Integration / Bertrand Van Ruymbeke 26

III The State in the Planters' Service: Politics and the Emergence of a Plantation Economy in South Carolina / Gary L. Hewitt 49

IV The Organization of Trade and Finance in the Atlantic Economy: Britain and South Carolina, 1670-1775 / R. C. Nash 74

V Colonial South Carolina's Rice Industry and the Atlantic Economy: Patterns of Trade, Shipping, and Growth, 1715-1775 / Stephen G. Hardy 108

VI Indian Traders, Charles Town, and London's Vital Links to the Interior of North America, 1717-1755 / Eirlys M. Barker 141

VII "All & Singular the Slaves": A Demographic Profile of Indian Slavery in Colonial South Carolina / William L. Ramsey 166

VIII This is "Mines": Slavery and Reproduction in Colonial Barbados and South Carolina / Jennifer Lyle Morgan 187

IX Affiliation without Affinity: Skilled Slaves in Eighteenth-Century South Carolina / S. Max Edelson 217

X "Practical Justice": The Justice of the Peace, the Slave Court, and Local Authority in Mid-Eighteenth-Century South Carolina / Robert Olwell 256

XI "Melancholy and Fatal Calamities": Disaster and Society in Eighteenth-Century South Carolina / Matthew Mulcahy 278

XII "Planters Full of Money": The Self-Fashioning of the Eighteenth-Century South Carolina Elite / Edward Pearson 299

XIII Economic Power among Eighteenth-Century Women of the Carolina Lowcountry: Four Generations of Middleton Women, 1678-1800 / G. Winston Lane Jr. 322

XIV Investing Widows: Autonomy in a Nascent Capitalist Society / Elizabeth M. Pruden 344

XV "Adding to the Church Such As Shall Be Saved": The Growth in Influence of Evangelicalism in Colonial South Carolina, 1740-1775 / Thomas J. Little 363.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1570033749

OCLC:

45620828