Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. List of Abbreviations ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Chapter 1. Triangular Links: England, Barbados, and Carolina 13
6. Chapter 2. Colonizing Carolina 52
7. Chapter 3. The Enslaved in Town and Country 90
8. Chapter 4. “This Wild Remote Part of the World”: The Making of the Eighteenth-Century Upcountry 129
9. Chapter 5. Planters “Full of Money”: The Self-Fashioning of the Eighteenth-Century South Carolina Elite 171
10. Chapter 6. The Road to Revolution 211
11. Chapter 7. Loyalists, Slaves, and Revolutionaries at War 245
12. Chapter 8. Cotton and Slavery in the Postwar Backcountry 287
13. Chapter 9. Denmark Vesey and the Culture of Resistance in Early Nineteenth-Century Charleston 331
14. Chapter 10. In the Wake of the Storm 365
15. Epilogue 391
16. Notes 407
17. Index 495
18. Acknowledgments 507