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In The Enslaved and Their Enslavers, Edward Pearson offers a
sweeping history of slavery in South Carolina, from British
settlement in 1670 to the dawn of the Civil War. For enslaved
peoples, the shape of their daily lives depended primarily on the
particular environment in which they lived and worked, and Pearson
examines three distinctive settings in the province: the extensive
rice and indigo plantations of the coastal plain; the streets,
workshops, and wharves of Charleston; and the farms and estates of
the upcountry. In doing so, he provides a fine-grained analysis of
how enslaved laborers interacted with their enslavers in the
workplace and other locations where they encountered one another as
plantation agriculture came to dominate the colony. The Enslaved
and Their Enslavers sets this portrait of early South Carolina
against broader political events, economic developments, and social
trends that also shaped the development of slavery in the region.
For example, the outbreak of the American Revolution and the
subsequent war against the British in the 1770s and early 1780s as
well as the French and Haitian revolutions all had a profound
impact on the institution’s development, both in terms of what
enslaved people drew from these events and how their enslavers
responded to them. Throughout South Carolina’s long history,
enslaved people never accepted their enslavement passively and
regularly demonstrated their fundamental opposition to the
institution by engaging in acts of resistance, which ranged from
vandalism to arson to escape, and, on rare occasions, organizing
collectively against their oppression. Their attempts to subvert
the institution in which they were held captive not only resulted
in slaveowners tightening formal and informal mechanisms of control
but also generated new forms of thinking about race and slavery
among whites that eventually mutated into pro-slavery ideology and
the myth of southern exceptionalism.
A Lecture Delivered By Edward Pearson Warner, Under The James
Jackson Cabot Professorship Of Air Traffic Regulation And Air
Transportation At Norwich University, November 21, 1937.
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