South Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times

South Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times
ISBN-10
082032938X
ISBN-13
9780820329383
Series
South Carolina Women
Category
History
Pages
310
Language
English
Published
2010-01-01
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Authors
Joan Marie Johnson, Marjorie Julian Spruill, Valinda W. Littlefield

Description

Volume One: 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.

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