Research Catalog

Title

Edisto Island, 1663 to 1860 : wild Eden to cotton aristocracy / Charles Spencer.

Author

Spencer, Charles (Charles Sackett), 1938-

Publication

Charleston, SC : History Press, 2008.

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Details

Description

222 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.

Summary

Beautiful Edisto Island has not always been a vacationer's haven in the South Carolina Lowcountry. Before European settlement, it was home to the Edisto Indians and a wide variety of wildlife. Author Charles Spencer chronicles Edisto's history, from the early days when English and Scottish planters and their African slaves settled the lush island paradise and established plantations that flourished until the Civil War.

Subject

• Natural history > South Carolina > Edisto Island
• Plantation life > South Carolina > Edisto Island > History
• Edisto Island (S.C.) > History
• Edisto Island (S.C.) > History > Pictorial works
• Edisto Island (S.C.) > Social life and customs
• Edisto Island (S.C.) > Race relations

Genre/Form

• Illustrated works
• History
• Pictorial works

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Edisto before colonization. The land -- An erosion-remnant island -- Edisto's barrier islands -- Edisto's marshes -- A major black-water river -- Edisto's climate & landscape -- Edisto's animal and bird life -- The earliest humans in SC -- The Indians of first European contact -- How the Edisto Indians lived -- A Spanish missionary among the Edisto in 1570 -- English explorers visit Edisto in the 1660s -- The decline of the Edisto Indians after 1670 -- The Edisto Indians today -- 2. Edisto's Europeans. The Carolina Colony -- The earliest settlers on Edisto Island -- Paul Grimball, the man and the politician -- The 2nd wave of settlers on Edisto Island -- The Hamilton family on Edisto -- Edisto's planter class in the 1700s -- Turmoil in the 1700s -- Human conflicts and natural disasters -- Edisto Island in the Revolutionary War -- 3. Edisto's Africans. Slave trading in Charleston, 1670-1807 -- Ethnic origins of the Africans brought to Carolina -- African slaves on rice plantations: a unique case -- Slave population on Edisto in the 1700s -- The illegal trace in African captives after 1807 -- An Edisto family from "Angola" -- 4. Edisto's early economy. Lumber -- Corn and cattle -- Rice -- Indigo -- The advent of Sea Island cotton -- Growing Sea-island cotton -- Preparing cotton for market -- Cotton exports -- 5. Plantation slavery on Edisto. The slave population -- Edisto plantation social structure and management -- The Sea Island task system -- Food, clothing and housing for slaves -- Health and medical care of slaves on Edisto -- Religion among slaves on Edisto -- Gullah language and culture -- Was slavery on Edisto "different?" -- Resistance by slaves on Edisto -- 6. Edisto's "golden age." Sea-island cotton was king -- Edisto's building boom -- Edingsville Beach -- The 1850s mapping project -- The Presbyterian Church on Edisto -- Trinity Episcopal Church -- Old First Baptist Church -- Early Methodism on Edisto -- Edisto's tiny middle class -- 7. Edisto's plantation aristocracy. Southeast corner of Edisto -- Edingsville to Holmes's Store -- Southwest corner of Edisto Island -- St. Pierre's Creek -- North Edisto -- Center of island -- Bailey's Island and Scanawah Island -- Northwest corner of Edisto -- Little Edisto -- Jehossee Island.

ISBN

9781596291843 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2007044281

OCLC

• 180851969
• SCSB-10672681

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library