Sanctifying Slavery and Politics in South Carolina: The Life of the Reverend Alexander Garden, 1685-1756

by Fred E. Witzig

A vivid portrait of a Scottish religious leader and the South Carolina colony he helped shape

When Alexander Garden, a Scottish minister of the Church of England, arrived in South Carolina in 1720, he found a colony smoldering from the devastation of the Yamasee War and still suffering from economic upheaval, political factionalism, and rampant disease. It was also a colony turning enthusiastically toward plantation agriculture, made...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611178452
• ISBN13: 9781611178456
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.1"