TY - BOOK AU - Witzig,Fred E. TI - Sanctifying slavery and politics in South Carolina: the life of Reverend Alexander Garden, 1685-1756 SN - 9781611178463 AV - F272 U1 - 975.7/02092B 23 PY - 2018///] CY - Columbia, South Carolina PB - University of South Carolina Press KW - Garden, Alexander, KW - Church of England KW - South Carolina KW - Charleston KW - Clergy KW - Biography KW - fast KW - Slavery KW - History KW - 18th century KW - Politics and government KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical KW - bisacsh KW - HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) KW - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 KW - To 1775 KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Birthplaces -- Acquaintances -- Friendship -- Dalliance -- Engagement -- Marriage -- Till death do us part N2 - "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"-- UR - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1632208 ER -