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Just before the Revolution, indigo reached its height - the colony was shipping England over a million pounds a year. It was our most valuable crop until after the invention of the cotton gin, when cotton became "king." However, South Carolina women raised patches of indigo for home use until after 1865.
Jul 7, 2016 · Women. Although women constitute a majority of South Carolina’s population, they have had to overcome many of the same barriers to equality as have women across the nation. During the colonial and antebellum periods and for many years after, South Carolina women lacked legal rights, had little access to education, and had few means available ...
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Mary Fisher, Sophia Hume, and the Quakers of Colonial Charleston: “Women Professing Godliness” Download; XML; Mary-Anne Schad and Mrs. Brown: Overseers’ Wives in Colonial South Carolina Download; XML; Eliza Lucas Pinckney and Harriott Pinckney Horry: A South Carolina Revolutionary-Era Mother and Daughter Download; XML
Primary Source: Women in South Carolina Experience Occupation, 1780. The British faced the difficult task of fighting a war without pushing more colonists into the hands of the revolutionaries. As a result, the Revolutionary War included little direct attacks on civilians, but that does not mean that civilians did not suffer.
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The British were not the first to attempt to colonize land in South Carolina. In the middle of the 16th century, first the French and then the Spanish tried to establish settlements on the coastal land. The French settlement of Charlesfort, now Parris Island, was established by French soldiers in 1562, but the effort lasted less than a year. In 156...
Many of the early settlers of South Carolina came from the island of Barbados, in the Caribbean, bringing with them the plantation system common in the West Indies colonies. Under this system, large areas of land were privately owned, and most of the farm labor was completed by enslaved people. South Carolina landowners initially claimed enslaved p...
The South Carolina and North Carolinacolonies originally were part of one colony called the Carolina Colony. The colony was set up as a proprietary settlement and governed by a group known as Carolina's Lord's Proprietors. But unrest with the Indigenous population and fear of rebellion from enslaved people led White settlers to seek protection from...
Jul 24, 2018 · Angelina Grimké’s future seemed clear the day she entered the world. Born a Southern aristocrat in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1805, she was destined to become an enslaver; born female, she ...
A more precise title might be “An Examination of the Legal Boundaries of a Woman’s life in Colonial South Carolina,” but that’s just too wordy. So how about this, simply: “A Woman’s Progress in Early South Carolina.” By progress, I don’t mean the accumulation of rights and liberties, as in the women’s progressive movement in ...
