Making a slave state : political development in early South Carolina / Ryan A. Quintana.

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"Beginning in the early eighteenth century and moving through the post-War of 1812 internal improvements boom, Quintana highlights the surprising ways enslaved men and women sat at the center of South Carolina's earliest political development, materially producing the state's infrastructure and earl...

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Main Author: Quintana, Ryan A. (Ryan Alexander) (Author)
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Slavery > South Carolina > History > 18th century.
Slavery > South Carolina > History > 19th century.
Enslaved persons > South Carolina > Social conditions.
Enslaved persons > South Carolina > Economic conditions.
South Carolina > History.
South Carolina > Politics and government.
South Carolina > Race relations.
Human ecology.
Human geography.
Politics and government.
Race relations.
Slavery.
Enslaved persons > Economic conditions.
Enslaved persons > Social conditions.
South Carolina.
1700-1899
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xiv, 238 pages ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The within enemy: slaves and the production of South Carolina's early state
  • The strength of this country: securing and rebuilding the state in the Revolutionary era
  • Their intentions were to ambuscade and surround me: the necessity of slave mobility
  • This negro thoroughfare: the meaning of black movement
  • With the labor of these slaves: producing the modern state.