A reexamination of the thirty-year period from 1730 to 1760 during which colonial South Carolina expanded into the back country, first described by Robert L. Meriwether in his 1940 study, The Expansion of South Carolina, 1729-1765. / It was during the initial three decades of frontier settlement that the demographic and social characteristics differentiating the back country from the tidewater first were established. Official concern for the internal (possible slave revolt) and external (attack by Indians or hostile European nations) security of South Carolina resulted in the creation of nine back country townships designed to attract white, Protestant farmers to the back country. / Unlike earlier attempts at expansion, these settlements were able to withstand the upheaval and destruction caused by the Cherokee War of 1759-1761 because back country society (despite its lack of cohesiveness) was firmly entrenched before its troubles began. Even after the severe dislocations of the Indian war, the back country basically remained the white buffer zone envisioned by Governor Robert Johnson and other provincial leaders in colonial South Carolina. / With the exception of the first chapter, which relates the history of the first thirty years of back country expansion, the study arranged by the demographic and social characteristics of the early South Carolina frontier. Contemporary statistics and demographic techniques have been used where possible and are supplemented by short biographies of representative settlers. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 47-01, Section: A, page: 0289. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1985.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_75726 |
| Contributors | HUGHES, KAYLENE., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 186 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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