Lowcountry agricultural and convivial societies : where planters came together in antebellum Georgetown, South Carolina /
"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 cha...
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Jefferson, North Carolina :
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
[2022]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : The rise and fall of the Georgetown rice culture
- Georgetown's response to social, moral and economic challenges
- Georgetown's politicians and media promote Southern nationalism
- The lifestyle of the Georgetown planter class during the late antebellum era
- The Winyah Indigo Society : from inception to the Wilmot Proviso
- The Winyah Indigo Society : teaching Southern nationalism
- The Winyah Indigo Society in a hall of their own
- The Hot and Hot Fish Club of All Saints Parish
- The Planters' Club on the Pee Dee
- The Winyah and All Saints Agricultural Society from inception to the Wilmot Proviso
- The Winyah and All Saints Agricultural Society from the Wilmot Proviso to secession.