Using the New Social History method and examining nearly every
document produced over the years covered, this study examines the
growth of communities in the Upper Pee Dee region of the South
Carolina backcountry in the 18th century. The study considers the
emergence of a landed elite, slavery, and a mobile population, plus
the disestablishment of the Anglican Church. Inhabitants of the
Cheraws District had access to a river that flowed to the coast,
allowing them to transport their agricultural produce to the market
at Georgetown. This ease of transportation enabled the district to
become more developed than other regions of the South Carolina
backcountry. In the 1770s, local inhabitants built a courthouse and
a jail, and members of the rising planter class formed St. David's
Society to educate parish youth. Records from two of the oldest
Baptist churches in the South provide clues to communal cohesion
and ethnicity. These accounts, combined with land and probate
records, provide information concerning settlement, wealth, and
slaveholding patterns in the region.
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