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My primary selections will be from the Monigault family papers. While I cannot use them all, as many are in French or illegible (and it is also too expansive of a collection), I will be revisiting the collection and doing my best to transcribe as many excerpts as I can to provide insight into life […]

I have decided to focus on my research efforts on the health and medicinal area of colonial life in South Carolina. While I digitally sifted through several DIY (do-it-yourself) medical remedies for peoples self care at home using local herbs, plants and homemade medicines I found the letters between Dr. Alexander Garden (one of SC’s first […]

I will put in a collection of poems selected from Cohen’s book South Carolina Gazette. I have not chosen which poems yet. I also plan to transcribe a satirical article from the editor of the Gazette that discusses the printing of a fake new newspaper from February of 1732. As a back up plan I […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

“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 […]

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 […]