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 calamities of fires and hurricanes exacerbated the problem of
slave control.
Finally, Edward Pearson describes the ways in which South
Carolina's emerging elite asserted their new status; G. Winston
Lane and Elizabeth M. Pruden review the surprising economic
independence of women; and Thomas Little examines the colony's
religious life and spread of evangelicalism.
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