Lowcountry Agricultural and Convivial Societies

Where Planters Came Together in Antebellum Georgetown, South Carolina
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4766-8626-4
Verlag: McFarland

Buch, Englisch, 277 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 371 g

Throughout the first century of South Carolina's settlement, rice was an important crop but the rice industry did not experience its first boom until the 1720s and 1730s. This book explores the purpose of the social organizations as well as the moral, economic, cultural, and political challenges of the Antebellum Georgetown rice planters. Within the protected confines of their organizations, planters felt safe discussing local and national politics, advancements to their educational system, agricultural and livestock improvements to better compete with the Industrial North. The alliance of "brothers of the soil," both farmer and planter, helped solidify South Carolina's Lowcountry politically. The agricultural alliances of the region promoted Southern Nationalism and provided one pillar for Southerners to mount the American Civil War.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boyle, Christopher C.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sachkultur, Materielle Kultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Christopher C. Boyle is the International Baccalaureate History teacher at Socastee High School in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina and has been a part-time teaching associate at Coastal Carolina University for twenty years. He has published over a dozen articles in both scholarly and popular journals and serves on the board of directors at Mansfield Planation and the Horry County Historical Society. He lives in Loris, South Carolina.