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South Carolina : a history / Walter Edgar. [print]

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, 1998.Description: xxiii, 716 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781570032554
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • F269.E23.S688 1998
  • F269
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Contents:
Spanish South Carolina -- The colony of a colony -- Peopling the province -- More like a Negro country -- The proprietary regime -- Trying royal government -- The riches of the province -- Everyday life in colonial South Carolina -- Threats: foreign and domestic -- The American Revolution -- Quest for order -- To raise something for sale -- Visit to Antebellum South Carolina -- Calculating the value of the Union -- The Civil War: part I, 1860-1865 -- The Civil War: part II, 1865-1877 -- Return of the old order -- Tillman -- South Carolina and the first new South -- The draining years -- All in one lifetime -- Adjusting to new circumstances.
Subject: In the first comprehensive history of South Carolina published in nearly fifty years, Walter Edgar presents a sweeping narrative of a state with an illustrious, sometimes infamous, past. He describes in very human terms 475 years of recorded history in the Palmetto State, including the experiences of all South Carolinians - rich and poor; male and female; those with roots in Africa and in Europe as well as Native Americans. In an eminently readable presentation, Edgar uses letters, diaries, and other writings to let voices from the past take part in telling the state's fascinating story.
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The land called Chicora -- Spanish South Carolina -- The colony of a colony -- Peopling the province -- More like a Negro country -- The proprietary regime -- Trying royal government -- The riches of the province -- Everyday life in colonial South Carolina -- Threats: foreign and domestic -- The American Revolution -- Quest for order -- To raise something for sale -- Visit to Antebellum South Carolina -- Calculating the value of the Union -- The Civil War: part I, 1860-1865 -- The Civil War: part II, 1865-1877 -- Return of the old order -- Tillman -- South Carolina and the first new South -- The draining years -- All in one lifetime -- Adjusting to new circumstances.

In the first comprehensive history of South Carolina published in nearly fifty years, Walter Edgar presents a sweeping narrative of a state with an illustrious, sometimes infamous, past. He describes in very human terms 475 years of recorded history in the Palmetto State, including the experiences of all South Carolinians - rich and poor; male and female; those with roots in Africa and in Europe as well as Native Americans. In an eminently readable presentation, Edgar uses letters, diaries, and other writings to let voices from the past take part in telling the state's fascinating story.

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