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The Huguenots of Colonial South Carolina (Paperback, New edition)
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The Huguenots of Colonial South Carolina (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Southern Classics
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The definitive study of the Huguenot influence in South Carolina
First published in 1928, The Huguenots of Colonial South Carolina
is the authoritative work on the Huguenot presence in one of the
most important American colonies. Arthur H. Hirsch provides a
thorough description and analysis of the Huguenot migration and
settlement in South Carolina throughout the colonial period. He
describes how the Huguenot communities and churches throughout the
state were founded and how the first-generation Huguenots
integrated into the religious, political, and socioeconomic fabric
of early South Carolina. Although the first group of Huguenot
settlers numbered no more than six hundred, they arrived in the
colony at a time when they could exert a disproportionate and
fundamental influence on early colonial institutions. Hirsch
explains how they quickly became a political force and aided the
Anglicans in establishing the Church of England in South Carolina.
He also traces the ways in which successive generations left an
indelible mark on the cultural and economic development of the
colony and the new state. Bertrand Van Ruymbeke's new introduction
places Hirsch's book in its historiographical context as the
product of a 1915 University of Chicago dissertation and the
intellectual heir of Charles W. Baird's groundbreaking work on the
subject. He examines the book's strengths, notably its accurate
identification of assimilation as the major theme of Huguenot
history in South Carolina and its integration of archival and
family history research. Van Ruymbeke also brings to bear his own
prodigious research in French archives on the backgrounds, number,
and manner of immigration of the early arrivals. He provides a new
look at the way the Huguenots found a place in the political
economy of colonial South Carolina.
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