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Lowcountry Agricultural and Convivial Societies : Where Planters Came Together in Antebellum Georgetown, South Carolina.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boyle, Christopher C.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Winyah Indigo Society--History.
- Winyah Indigo Society.
- Plantation life--South Carolina--Georgetown County--History--19th century.
- Plantation life.
- Plantation owners--South Carolina--Georgetown County--Social life and customs.
- Plantation owners.
- Clubs--South Carolina--Georgetown County--History.
- Clubs.
- Agriculture--South Carolina--Societies, etc--History.
- Agriculture.
- Plantation owners--South Carolina--Georgetown County--Biography.
- Georgetown (S.C.)--History--19th century.
- Georgetown (S.C.).
- South Carolina--Politics and government--1775-1865.
- South Carolina.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (251 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson : McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers, 2022.
- Summary:
- "Throughout the first century of South Carolina's settlement, rice was an important crop but the rice industry did not experience its first boom until the 1720s and 1730s. This book explores the purpose of the social organizations as well as the moral, economic, cultural, and political challenges of the Antebellum Georgetown rice planters. Within the protected confines of their organizations, planters felt safe discussing local and national politics, advancements to their educational system, agricultural and livestock improvements to better compete with the Industrial North. The alliance of "brothers of the soil," both farmer and planter, helped solidify South Carolina's Lowcountry politically. The agricultural alliances of the region promoted Southern Nationalism and provided one pillar for Southerners to the American Civil War."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction : The rise and fall of the Georgetown rice culture
- Georgetown's response to social, moral and economic challenges
- Georgetown's politicians and media promote Southern nationalism
- The lifestyle of the Georgetown planter class during the late antebellum era
- The Winyah Indigo Society : from inception to the Wilmot Proviso
- The Winyah Indigo Society : teaching Southern nationalism
- The Winyah Indigo Society in a hall of their own
- The Hot and Hot Fish Club of All Saints Parish
- The Planters' Club on the Pee Dee
- The Winyah and All Saints Agricultural Society from inception to the Wilmot Proviso
- The Winyah and All Saints Agricultural Society from the Wilmot Proviso to secession.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Boyle, Christopher C. Lowcountry Agricultural and Convivial Societies
- ISBN:
- 9781476644219
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