The History of Beaufort County, South Carolina: 1514-1861

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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
Index
480
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