Author: Marjorie Julian Spruill
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 082032938X
Size: 16.67 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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South Carolina Women book, 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.