Trade, Politics, and Revolution: South Carolina and Britain's Atlantic Commerce, 1730–1790 (Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World)
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- Synopsis
- This study of early transatlantic trade in colonial South Carolina exposes the social and political divisions that led to the American Revolution.London’s “Carolina traders,” a group of transatlantic merchants, played a pivotal but historically neglected role in the rise of tensions between Britain and the South Carolina lowcountry. Beginning in the 1730s, these traders used their political connections to prosper in the colonial South before returning to London to act as absentee owners of property, plantations, and slaves. Drawing on correspondence, business records, newspapers, and other sources, Huw David delves into the lives of these men and explores their influence on commerce and politics in the years before and after the American Revolution. Until the 1760s these traders stabilized relations by lobbying for colonial interests. But as the British Empire imposed laws such as the so-called Intolerable Acts, rebellious South Carolinians came to see them as instruments of imperial oppression.Trade, Politics, and Revolution sheds new light on early trade in South Carolina and the shifting climate that led to the American Revolution. It also explores the reconstruction of trade routes between the newly founded United States and Great Britain. By focusing on one segment of transatlantic trade, David provides a new interpretive approach to imperialism and exposes the complex, deeply personal rift that divided the Carolina traders from their homeland and broke the colonies from the mother country.
- Copyright:
- 2018
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 288 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781611178951
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781611178944
- Publisher:
- University Of South Carolina Press
- Date of Addition:
- 04/12/22
- Copyrighted By:
- University of South Carolina
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Business and Finance, Social Studies
- Reading Age:
- 18 and up
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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