Lowcountry agricultural and convivial societies : where planters came together in antebellum Georgetown, South Carolina /

Lowcountry agricultural and convivial societies : where planters came together in antebellum Georgetown, South Carolina /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Boyle, Christopher C., author.
Imprint:Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2022]
Description:xii, 238 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language:English
Subject:
Winyah Indigo Society -- History.
Winyah Indigo Society.
Plantation life -- South Carolina -- Georgetown County -- History -- 19th century.
Plantation owners -- South Carolina -- Georgetown County -- Social life and customs.
Clubs -- South Carolina -- Georgetown County -- History.
Agriculture -- South Carolina -- Societies, etc. -- History.
Plantation owners -- South Carolina -- Georgetown County -- Biography.
Georgetown (S.C.) -- History -- 19th century.
Agriculture -- Societies, etc.
Plantation life.
Plantation owners.
Plantation owners -- Social life and customs.
Politics and government.
South Carolina -- Politics and government -- 1775-1865.
South Carolina.
South Carolina -- Georgetown County.
Biographies.
History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12769683
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Varying Form of Title:Where planters came together in antebellum Georgetown, South Carolina
ISBN:9781476686264
1476686262
9781476644219
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"Throughout the first century of South Carolina's settlement, rice was an important crop but the rice industry did not experience its first boom until the 1720s and 1730s. This book explores the purpose of the social organizations as well as the moral, economic, cultural, and political challenges of the Antebellum Georgetown rice planters. Within the protected confines of their organizations, planters felt safe discussing local and national politics, advancements to their educational system, agricultural and livestock improvements to better compete with the Industrial North. The alliance of "brothers of the soil," both farmer and planter, helped solidify South Carolina's Lowcountry politically. The agricultural alliances of the region promoted Southern Nationalism and provided one pillar for Southerners to the American Civil War."--

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