Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Colonial South Carolina: vii
4. Creating a Plantation Province 1
5. The Huguenots of Proprietary South Carolina 26
6. The State in the Planters’ Service 49
7. The Organization of Trade and Finance in the Atlantic Economy 74
8. Colonial South Carolina’s Rice Industry and the Atlantic Economy 108
9. Indian Traders, Charles Town, and London’s Vital Links to the Interior of North America, 1717–1755 141
10. “All & Singular the Slaves” 166
11. This is “Mines” 187
12. Affiliation without Affinity 217
13. “Practical Justice” 256
14. “Melancholy and Fatal Calamities” 278
15. “Planters Full of Money” 299
16. Economic Power among Eighteenth-Century Women of the Carolina Lowcountry 322
17. Investing Widows 344
18. “Adding to the Church Such As Shall Be Saved” 363
19. List of Contributors 383
20. Index 387