Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Spencer, Charles (Charles Sackett), 1938-

Publication

Charleston : History Press, 2008.

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Details

Description

221 pages : illustrations, maps; 26 cm

Subjects

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

Genre/Form

• History.
• Illustrated works.
• Pictorial works.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-211) 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
• 1596291842

LCCN

2007044281

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library