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Witzig, Fred E.,

Sanctifying slavery and politics in South Carolina : the life of Reverend Alexander Garden, 1685-1756 / Fred E. Witzig. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Birthplaces -- Acquaintances -- Friendship -- Dalliance -- Engagement -- Marriage -- Till death do us part.

"When Alexander Garden, a Scottish minister of the Church of England, arrived in South Carolina in 1720, he found a colony smoldering from the devastation of the Yamasee War and still suffering from economic upheaval, political factionalism, and rampant disease. It was also a colony turning enthusiastically toward plantation agriculture, made possible by African slave labor. In Sanctifying Slavery and Politics in South Carolina, the first published biography of Garden, Fred E. Witzig paints a vivid portrait of the religious leader and the South Carolina colony he helped shape"--

ISBN: 9781611178463 1611178460

LCCN: 2018005446

Subjects--Personal Names:
Garden, Alexander, 1686-1756.
Garden, Alexander, 1686-1756.

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Church of England--Clergy--South Carolina--Charleston--Biography.
Church of England.

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
To 1799

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Slavery--History--South Carolina--18th century.
Clergy.
Politics and government.
Slavery.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
South Carolina--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
South Carolina--Politics and government--To 1775.
South Carolina.
South Carolina--Charleston.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Biography.
History.
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: F272

Dewey Class. No.: 975.7/02092 B