This volume, which spans the long period from the sixteenth century
through the Civil War era, is remarkable for the religious, racial,
ethnic, and class diversity of the women it features. Essays on
plantation mistresses, overseers' wives, nonslaveholding women from
the upcountry, slave women, and free black women in antebellum
Charleston are certain to challenge notions about the slave South
and about the significance of women to the state's economy. South
Carolina's unusual history of religious tolerance is explored
through the experiences of women of various faiths, and accounts of
women from Europe, the West Indies, and other colonies reflect the
diverse origins of the state's immigrants.
The volume begins with a profile of the Lady of Cofitachequi,
who sat at the head of an Indian chiefdom and led her people in
encounters with Spanish explorers. The essays that follow look at
well-known women such as Eliza Lucas Pinckney, who managed several
indigo plantations; the abolitionist Angelina Grimke; and Civil War
diarist Mary Boykin Chesnut. Also included, however, are essays on
the much-less-documented lives of poor white farming women (the
Neves family of Mush Creek), free African American women (Margaret
Bettingall and her daughters), and slave women, the latter based on
interviews and their own letters. The essays in volume 1
demonstrate that many women in this most conservative of states,
with its strong emphasis on traditional gender roles, carved out
far richer public lives than historians have often attributed to
antebellum southern women.
Historical figures included: The Lady of CofitachequiJudith
Giton ManigaultMary FisherSophia HumeMary-Anne SchadMrs.
BrownRebecca Brewton MotteEliza Lucas PinckneyHarriott Pinckney
HorryEnslaved woman known as DollyEnslaved woman known as
LaviniaEnslaved woman known as MariaEnslaved woman known as
SusanWomen of the Bettingall-Tunno FamilyAngelina GrimkeElizabeth
Allston PringleMother Mary Baptista AloysiusMary Boykin
ChesnutFrances NevesLucy Holcombe Pickens
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