The Travelers' Charleston Accounts of Charleston and Lowcountry, South Carolina, 1666-1861 / edited by Jennie Holton Fant.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fant, Jennie Holton, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

South Carolina.

South Carolina--History--1775-1865--Sources.

Charleston (S.C.)--Description and travel.

Charleston (S.C.).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (386 p.)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2016

Place of Publication:

Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Travelers' accounts of the people, culture, and politics of the southern coastal region prior to the Civil War

Contents:

Joseph Woory (1666): "Discovery"

John Lawson (early 1700s): "Charles Towne" and "Travel among the Indians"

Josiah Quincy Jr. (1773): "Society of Charleston"

Johann Schoepf (1782): "After the revolution"

John Davis (1798-99): "The woods of South Carolina"

John Lambert (1808): "Look to the right and dress!"

Samuel F.B. Morse (1818-1820): "Hospitably entertained and many portraits painted"

Margaret Hunter Hall (1828): "The dowdies and their clumsy partners"

James Stuart Esq. (1830): "Devil in petticoats"

Harriet Martineau (1835): "Many mansions there are in this hell"

John Benwell (1838): "July the 4th"

Fredrika Bremer (1850): "The lover of darkness"

William Makepeace Thackeray (1853 and 1855): "The fast lady of Charleston"

William Ferguson (1855): "Such a one's geese are all swans"

John Milton Mackie (late 1850s): "The last hour of repose"

Anna C. Brackett (1861): "Charleston, South Carolina, 1861".

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781611175851

1611175852

OCLC:

930704223