After the material we have studied this semester and our class discussion of colonial South Carolina, I became most interested in researching the issue of disease during this time period. In conducting my archival research, my goals were to find documents that gave information on the different types of disease, cures and symptoms that effected […]
Chapter 8: Blacks, Whites, and Slavery
Slavery in South Carolina during the colonial period was a delicate system that consisted of constant waves of tension, brutality, suppression and instability. After the high fluctuations of Africans into the Carolinas, whites, teetered on unstable ground knowing that there was a constant, unpredictable risk of revolts. At the beginning of the colonial period the […]
Chapter 9: Society: The Social Aggregate
One of the main points this chapter tries to make is the difference between different regions of the state. The backcountry was an area of lawlessness – men of property were the law against rustlers and thieves. The lowcountry, however, was the richest society in colonial America at the time (214). This was, of course, […]
Dissecting the Society of Colonial South Carolina- Chapter 10
In a way, early South Carolina re-created itself while adhering to many similar customs of England’s parliament. The economy of the newborn colony was based on the amount of property that one owned. Correspondingly, Carolinians adapted a hierarchical system also similar to England’s. People who had material wealth ended up being the richest and most […]
Chapter 12: The Overt Challenge and the Coming of the Revolution
This chapter was largely dealing with the very well known acts of taxation that led up to the American Revolution. Weir spends a lot of time covering the reactions to the various methods of taxation and how the colony refuted each one. Since those were all covered in Jasmin’s post very well I won’t waste […]
CH 12: The start of a revolution
“Our properties within our own territories be not taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.” ― Thomas Jefferson Wier chronicles each event that pressured the colonists to revolt against the crown starting in the year 1764, just a dozen years prior to the American independence. A running theme with these events is […]
Chapter 10 Society: Aspirations and Achievement
In this chapter of Colonial South Carolina: A History, Weir deals with the elite class and the function of society for them. Wealth in coming over from England played a role in attaining elite status but maintaining it was a different matter. With high mortality rates just maintaining a family lineage was a major obstacle […]
Chapter 11: The Cherokee War and the Indirect Challenge to the Carolina Gentry
When the Carolina colony was first being erected, the crown in England enforced salutary neglect, meaning that giving the colonists free reign with little authority would produce a more productive colony. However, after King George’s War of 1748, the British felt it necessary to reverse their original order. The British feared that the Carolina colonists […]
Chapter 11: The Cherokee War and the Indirect Challenge to the Carolina Gentry, Summary
Chapter 11, “The Cherokee War and the Indirect Challenge to the Carolina Gentry” covers the constant power struggle between British and American authorities. The power struggle and assumption the British authorities had that South Carolinians were “backwards colonials” interfered with the ability to protect the colony during the war (Weir 265). After a dispute with […]
Chapter 9 – Society: The Social Aggregate
Chapter 9, Society: The Social Aggregate, describes the social climate of colonial South Carolina in terms of religion, ethnicity, economy, class hierarchies, and violence. These areas are discussed in light of the differences between the backcountry and the lowcountry of early South Carolina. Once having outlined the distinctions between the two regions, Weir ultimately concludes that […]
