The History of Beaufort County, South Carolina: 1514-1861Lawrence Sanders Rowland, Alexander Moore, George C. Rogers, George C. Rogers (Jr.), Stephen R. Wise, Gerhard Spieler Univ of South Carolina Press, 1996 - 521 من الصفحات The complex, colorful history of South Carolina's southeastern corner In the first volume of The History of Beaufort County, South Carolina, three distinguished historians of the Palmetto State recount more than three centuries of Spanish and French exploration, English and Huguenot agriculture, and African slave labor as they trace the history of one of North America's oldest European settlements. From the sixteenth-century forays of the Spaniards to the invasion of Union forces in 1861, Lawrence S. Rowland, Alexander Moore, and George C. Rogers, Jr., chronicle the settlement and development of the geographical region comprised of what is now Beaufort, Jasper, Hampton, and part of Allendale counties. The authors describe the ill-fated attempts of the Spanish and French to settle the Port Royal Sound area and the arrival of the British in 1663, which established the Beaufort District as the southern frontier of English North America. They tell of the region's bloody Indian Wars, participation in the American Revolution, and golden age of prosperity and influence following the introduction of Sea Island cotton. In charting the approach of civil war, Rowland, Moore, and Rogers relate Beaufort District's decisive role in the Nullification Crisis and in the cultivation, by some of the district's native sons, of South Carolina's secessionist movement. Of particular interest, they profile the local African American, or Gullah, population - a community that has become well known for the retention of its African cultural and linguistic heritage. |
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Introduction | 1 |
American Indians in Beaufort County | 7 |
The Rise and Fall of Santa | 14 |
English Scots and Yemassee at Port Royal | 58 |
Settling the Southern Frontier | 80 |
Yemassee War | 95 |
Settling the Indian Lands between the Combahee | 111 |
Africans and Evangelists | 128 |
Beaufort District and the New Nation | 254 |
Introduction of Sea Island Cotton to the Beaufort | 277 |
The Last Frontier of the Beaufort District | 297 |
Savannah River Rice Plantations 18201860 | 313 |
Nullification Crisis and the Rise of the Rhett Faction | 333 |
Beaufort Districts African American Communities | 347 |
Beaufort Districts Farmers and Planters in 1850 | 368 |
The Mind of Antebellum Beaufort | 396 |
Beaufort and the Caribbean Cockpit | 139 |
Indigo Culture 17501775 | 161 |
Beaufort Economy on the Eve of the Revolution | 175 |
Beaufort Assembly of 1772 | 195 |
American Revolution in the Beaufort District | 202 |
The Bluffton Movement and the Road to Secession | 420 |
The Battle of Port Royal Sound | 443 |
Bibliography | 460 |
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