... large fireplaces. Sugar became more common in the diets of the wealthy but remained rare among the less elite. Rice cultivation began in South Carolina as enslaved people brought their knowledge to the Lowcountry. Race remained a key determinant of people's diets. As southern towns and cities grew...

... governance was the Cape Fear settlement. Later in the chapter, the framework for future colonies including North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and the offshore Bahamas is constructed through Carolina’s proprietary charters as well as its constitutions. Berkeley James Charles II Cromwell Oliver...

...This chapter focuses on the experiences of 1861 and early 1862 that forced Confederates to confront the prospect of a longer and more unpredictable war. Military defeats in South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia contradicted the narrative of inevitable victory. In northwestern Virginia...

...This chapter describes how Kate Waymon regularly cleaned house for Katherine Miller, a widow who lived in Gillette Woods, the affluent Tryon neighborhood that meandered from the far west side of town right up to the South Carolina border. The development traced its origins to 1893, when William...

...This chapter centers on the Hare’s arrival at Charles Town, South Carolina and the sale of the captives in March 1755. It begins with a description of the colony and town, emphasizing the economic importance of rice and indigo planting. The captives were consigned to Gabriel...

... a great deal of autonomy and considerable mobility. A few of the Hare captives wound up living on smaller establishments in the emerging backcountry, working as cowherds and farm hands. Charles Town Hare captives in South Carolina Laurens Henry Lloyd William Rice plantations Slave...

...This chapter addresses the question of whether Africans in South Carolina were scattered in such a way as to make it difficult to perpetuate African cultural practices, or whether they lived in linguistically and culturally coherent clusters. The Hare captives’ experience suggests...

...This chapter discusses the event that marked a significant shift in the national crisis: South Carolina's formal withdrawal from the United States. South Carolina would now assert its independence, and there were countless ways in which doing so was likely to bring it into conflict with federal...

...This chapter discusses the negative response of Northerners to South Carolina's seizure of Fort Moultrie and the other federal defenses at Charleston, and the fury they felt with the attack on the Star of the West. Passionate differences over slavery's extension and fugitive slaves...

... and a mule ” Fourteenth Amendment Johnson Andrew Reconstruction Acts of 1867 Republican Party Saxon Rufus Sherman William T South Carolina Chamberlain Daniel Hampton Wade Hayes Rutherford B Ku Klux Klan Red Shirts Robertson Ben Jim Crow miscegenation racism segregation Social Darwinism...

... Owens Rosie Glenn schools South Carolina Cleveland district Glenn Clarence land McJunkin Emma McKinney Ansel “Anse ” Owens Chris Terrell William White Judith Bald Rock French Carl McKinney Minnie Owens Lula McJunkin Parker Elaine Pumpkintown General Store stores Marietta SC McJunkin...

...This chapter shows how much South Carolina differed from North Carolina as a colony in 1711. For one thing, it was prosperous. Blessed with a deepwater port, Charles Town was already a beautiful, bustling place, the largest town in the English colonies south of Philadelphia. It far outshone North...

...This book begins with the story of a black female Charlestonian by the name of Catherine, who petitioned the South Carolina General Assembly and asked the assemblymen to ratify her freedom. Originally the enslaved laborer of one Peter Catanet, Catherine was sold to a man named Dr. Plumeau for $300...

... ownership of enslaved laborers, and her social activities, Cecille had always appeared to adhere to the rules that governed the raced and gendered roles that South Carolina society afforded to her. As a result, she was rewarded by the church, the state, and her peers by being accorded all the rights...

...This chapter describes how Barbara Tunno Barquet became ensnared in the legal battles of a wealthy South Carolina couple. That year, Elizabeth Heyward Hamilton, a member of a powerful planter family, sued her husband, James, for violating their marriage contract. Elizabeth brought an estate worth...

...Built between 1738 and 1742, Drayton Hall, outside Charleston, South Carolina, is the ideal subject for a book on the architecture of the British Atlantic world, as it illustrates tensions inherent in the transatlantic approach to early modern American and British history. The house was built...

...This chapter tells a story that began at a small, just-completed fort in Charleston Harbor. Whatever its limited strategic value, Fort Sumter had come to symbolize federal authority in South Carolina, a horrible affront to Confederate claims to being a sovereign nation. To the militarily untutored...

..., Virginia, and South Carolina, worries about slave insurrections brought some towns to the brink of violence. Meanwhile, in upper New York, concern about Indians' acting in league with the king also surfaced immediately, producing another crisis. Before the end of May, the notion that war with Britain might...

...This introduction lays out the main arguments of the book. It begins with a case study, a voting rights campaign in Orangeburg, South Carolina, during the early 1960s with support from the Voter Education Project (VEP). It then zooms out and explains the scope and importance of the VEP during...

...When the Confederate and state government in South Carolina proved unable to respond to the threatening alliance between escaped Union prisoners, slaves, and deserters, citizens of the state took over the functions of security in their neighborhoods and withdrew from state-sponsored efforts...