Money, Trade and Power : The Evolution of Colonial South Carolina's Plantation Society,9781570033742

Money, Trade and Power : The Evolution of Colonial South Carolina's Plantation Society

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ISBN13: 9781570033742
ISBN10: 1570033749
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-10-01
Publisher(s): Univ of South Carolina Pr
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Summary

Reflecting the burgeoning interest of colonial historians in South Carolina and its role as the economic and cultural center of the Lower South, Money, Trade, and Power is a comprehensive exploration of the colony's slave system, economy, and complex social and cultural life.

The first six chapters of this essay collection focus on the formative decades of South Carolina's history, from 1670 through the 1730s. Contributors Meaghan N. Duff, Bertrand Van Ruymbeke, and Gary L. Hewitt explore the colony's early settlement. R. C. Nash, Stephen G. Hardy, and Eirlys M. Barker investigate the rapidly expanding economy.

Turning to the colony's reliance on slave labor, William L. Ramsay analyzes the institution and abandonment of Indian slavery; Jennifer Lyle Morgan examines the reproductive capabilities of slave women; and S. Max Edelson looks at the distinctive social position of skilled slaves. Robert Olwell considers how South Carolina public officials adapted the office of justice of the peace to the needs of a slave society, while Matthew Mulcahy shows how cala

Table of Contents

Colonial South Carolina: An Introduction vii
Jack P. Greene
Creating a Plantation Province
1(25)
Proprietary Land Policies and Early Settlement Patterns
Meaghan N. Duff
The Huguenots of Proprietary South Carolina
26(23)
Patterns of Migration and Integration
Bertrand Van Ruymbeke
The State in the Planters' Service
49(25)
Politics and the Emergence of a Plantation Economy in South Carolina
Gary L. Hewitt
The Organization of Trade and Finance in the Atlantic Economy
74(34)
Britain and South Carolina, 1670--1775
R. C. Nash
Colonial South Carolina's Rice Industry and the Atlantic Economy
108(33)
Patterns of Trade, Shipping, and Growth, 1715--1775
Stephen G. Hardy
Indian Traders, Charles Town, and London's Vital Links to the Interior of North America, 1717--1755
141(25)
Eirlys M. Barker
``All & Singular the Slaves''
166(21)
A Demographic Profile of Indian Slavery in Colonial South Carolina
William L. Ramsey
This is ``Mines''
187(30)
Slavery and Reproduction in Colonial Barbados and South Carolina
Jennifer Lyle Morgan
Affiliation without Affinity
217(39)
Skilled Slaves in Eighteenth-Century South Carolina
S. Max Edelson
``Practical Justice''
256(22)
The Justice of the Peace, the Slave Court, and Local Authority in Mid-Eighteenth-Century South Carolina
Robert Olwell
``Melancholy and Fatal Calamities''
278(21)
Disaster and Society in Eighteenth-Century South Carolina
Matthew Mulcahy
``Planters Full of Money''
299(23)
The Self-Fashioning of the Eighteenth-Century South Carolina Elite
Edward Pearson
Economic Power among Eighteenth-Century Women of the Carolina Lowcountry
322(22)
Four Generations of Middleton Women, 1678--1800
G. Winston Lane Jr.
Investing Widows
344(19)
Autonomy in a Nascent Capitalist Society
Elizabeth M. Pruden
``Adding to the Church Such As Shall Be Saved''
363(20)
The Growth in Influence of Evangelicalism in Colonial South Carolina, 1740--1775
Thomas J. Little
List of Contributors 383(4)
Index 387

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