BLACK MAJORITY NEGROES IN COLONIAL SOUTH CAROLINA 1670 to Stono 1974 Peter Wood

Description: Alfred A. Knopf, NY, First edition stated. VG large hardcover in vg dust jacket,xxiv. Notes on Text. Footnote Abbreviations. Footnotes. Tables. Appendices. Bibliographical Note. 346pp. Index, viii. Some ripple and shelf wear to dust jacket, slight spotting to covers. prior owner name and seal inside, prior owner was a respected professor at Wayne State University. Winner of the Albert J. Beveridge Award of the American Historical Association. "Historian Peter H. Wood examines the rise of a distinct slave culture in South Carolina during the colonial period. Wood’s argument stems from the assertion that South Carolina was, in effect, a colony of a colony, having been settled by Barbadians looking for greater land opportunities. He argues, “Those who traveled to [the Carolina] coast from Barbados – both blacks and whites – were to make up a significant segment of the first permanent colony in that region” and “the activities of a group of Barbadian Adventurers helped lay out the terms under which the Carolina coast would eventually be colonized.” Wood structures his argument chronologically as he traces the evolution of colonial South Carolina, only occasionally skipping ahead or backwards to illustrate a point. Wood’s evidence includes county records, the wills of deceased slave owners, and, in some cases, accounts of slaves themselves. " (RDD) "From the first Africans to arrive on a Spanish expedition in 1526 and the African migrants arriving from Barbados in 1670 to the social tensions of the 1700s, Wood covers such topics as cattle raising, rice cultivation, disease, family life, religion, Black English, growing anxieties between whites and blacks, and the Stono Rebellion in 1739. Blacks became the majority population in South Carolina by the early 1700s. They were brought in as laborers and were immune to many lowland diseases that led to the higher mortality and morbidity rate among European settlers. Interestingly, the sickle cell trait heightened Africans' resistance to malaria. What I gathered from this work is that, while Africans were enslaved by the whites, Africans shaped South Carolina more than any other group through such things as their knowledge of cattle grazing, rice planting and cleaning, etc.(mwreview)

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