Plantation Enterprise in Colonial South Carolina

by S. Max Edelson

Book Overview

This impressive scholarly debut deftly reinterprets one of America's oldest symbols--the southern slave plantation. S. Max Edelson examines the relationships between planters, slaves, and the natural world they colonized to create the Carolina Lowcountry.

European settlers came to South Carolina in 1670 determined to possess an abundant wilderness. Over the course of a century, they settled highly adaptive rice and indigo plantations across...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674060229
• ISBN13: 9780674060227
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"