South Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times

by Spruill, Marjorie Julian

• ISBN13: 9780820329369
• ISBN10: 0820329363
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-05-25
• Publisher: Univ of Georgia Pr

Summary

This volume, which spans the long period from the sixteenth century through the Civil War era, is remarkable for the religious, racial, ethnic, and class diversity of the women it features. Written by leading historians of women, these fourteen essays discuss plantation mistresses, overseers' wives, nonslaveholding women from the upcountry, slave women, and free black women and are certain to challenge notions about the slave South and about the significance of women to the state's economy. South Carolina's unusual history of religious tolerance is explored through the experiences of women of various faiths, and accounts of women from Europe, the West Indies, and other colonies reflect the diverse origins of the state's immigrants.

Author Biography

Marjorie Julian Spruill is a professor of history at the University of South Carolina. Valinda W. Littlefield is an assistant professor of history at the University of South Carolina. Joan Marie Johnson is a lecturer at Northeastern Illinois University.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Introduction	p. 1
The Lady of Cofitachequi: Gender and Political Power among Native Southerners	p. 11
Judith Giton: From Southern France to the Carolina Lowcountry	p. 26
Mary Fisher, Sophia Hume, and the Quakers of Colonial Charleston: "Women Professing Godliness"	p. 40
Mary-Anne Schad and Mrs. Brown: Overseers' Wives in Colonial South Carolina	p. 60
Eliza Lucas Pinckney and Harriott Pinckney Horry: A South Carolina Revolutionary-Era Mother and Daughter	p. 79
Rebecca Brewton Motte: Revolutionary South Carolinian	p. 109
Dolly, Lavinia, Maria, and Susan: Enslaved Women in Antebellum South Carolina	p. 127
The Bettingall-Tunno Family and the Free Black Women of Antebellum Charleston: A Freedom Both Contingent and Constrained	p. 143
Angelina Grimke: Abolition and Redemption in a Crusade against Slavery	p. 168
Elizabeth Allston Pringle: A Woman Rice Planter	p. 184
Mother Mary Baptista Aloysius (nee Ellen Lynch): A Confederate Nun and Her Southern Identity	p. 214
Mary Boykin Chesnut: Civil War Redux	p. 233
Frances Neves and Her Family: Upcountry Women in the Civil War	p. 255
Lucy Holcombe Pickens: Belle, Political Novelist, and Southern Lady	p. 273
Notes on Contributors	p. 299
Index	p. 305
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