Introduction -- The prerevolutionary south: foundations of culture and community -- Toward independence: the conflict over slavery in a revolutionary context -- The struggle for freedom: British invasion and occupation of South Carolina -- The ending of the war: tragedy and triumph at Yorktown -- The coming of peace: British evacuation and African-American relocation -- The aftermath of war: demographic and economic transformations -- The Christian social order: reformulating the master's ideology -- The African-American response: Black culture within a white context -- Conclusion
Summary
The era of the American Revolution was one of violent and unpredictable social, economic, and political change, and the dislocations of the period were most severely felt in the South. Sylvia Frey contends that the military struggle there involved a triangle--two sets of white belligerents and approximately 400,000 slaves. She reveals the dialectical relationships between slave resistance and Britain's Southern Strategy and between slave resistance and the white independence movement among Southerners, and shows how how these relationships transformed religion, law, and the economy during the postwar years
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-367) and index
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