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Sanctifying slavery & politics in South Carolina : the life of Reverend Alexander Garden, 1685-1756
- Title
- Sanctifying slavery & politics in South Carolina : the life of Reverend Alexander Garden, 1685-1756 / Fred E. Witzig.
- Author
- Witzig, Fred E.
- Publication
- Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2018]
- ©2018
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Details
- Description
- xv, 235 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- "When Alexander Garden, a Scottish minister of the Church of England, arrived in South Carolina in 1720, he found a colony smoldering from the devastation of the Yamasee War and still suffering from economic upheaval, political factionalism, and rampant disease. It was also a colony turning enthusiastically toward plantation agriculture, made possible by African slave labor. In Sanctifying Slavery and Politics in South Carolina, the first published biography of Garden, Fred E. Witzig paints a vivid portrait of the religious leader and the South Carolina colony he helped shape"--
- Alternative Title
- Sanctifying slavery and politics in South Carolina
- Subject
- Garden, Alexander, 1686-1756
- Church of England > South Carolina > Charleston > Clergy > Biography
- Church of England
- To 1799
- Slavery > South Carolina > History > 18th century
- Clergy
- Politics and government
- Slavery
- South Carolina > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
- South Carolina > Politics and government > To 1775
- South Carolina
- South Carolina > Charleston
- Genre/Form
- Biography.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-232) and index.
- Contents
- Birthplaces -- Acquaintances -- Friendship -- Dalliance -- Engagement -- Marriage -- Till death do us part.
- Call Number
- Sc E 18-549
- ISBN
- 9781611178456
- 1611178452
- LCCN
- 2018004703
- OCLC
- 1022076125
- Author
- Witzig, Fred E., author.
- Title
- Sanctifying slavery & politics in South Carolina : the life of Reverend Alexander Garden, 1685-1756 / Fred E. Witzig.
- Publisher
- Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2018]
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-232) and index.
- Chronological Term
- To 1799
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 18-549