Olwell shows how South Carolinas status as a colony influenced the development of slavery and also how the presence of slavery altered English ideas and institutions within a colonial setting. He details the interstices of power and resistance in four key sites of the colonial social order: the criminal law and the slave court conversion and communion in the established church market relations and the marketplace and patriarchy and the plantation great house. While slavery was peculiar within a democratic republic, it was an integral and seldom questioned part of the eighteenth-century British empire.Olwell examines the complex relations among masters, slaves, metropolitan institutions, officials, and ideas in the South Carolina low country from the end of the Stono Rebellion through the chaos of the American Revolution. In this engaging study of a colonial older South, Robert Olwell analyzes the structures and internal dynamics of a world in which both masters and slaves were also imperial subjects. Book Synopsis The slave societies of the American colonies were quite different from the Old South of the early-nineteenth-century United States. In this engaging study of a colonial older South, Robert Olwell analyzes the structures and internal dynamics of a. About the Book The slave societies of the American colonies were quite different from the Old South of the early-nineteenth-century United States.
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