Making a Slave State : Political Development in Early South Carolina /
"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 infrastr...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2018]
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469641089_quintana |
| Summary: | "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 early governing practices, while also challenging and reshaping both through their day-to-day movements, from the mundane to the rebellious. Focusing on slaves' lives and labors, Quintana illuminates how black South Carolinians not only created the early state, but also established their own extralegal economic sites, social and cultural havens, and independent communities along South Carolina's roads, rivers, and canals"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781469641072 1469641070 9781469641089 1469641089 9781469641065 9781469642222 |