From New Babylon to Eden
Subtitle: the Huguenots and their migration to colonial South Carolina
By: Bertrand Van Ruymbeke.
Series: The Carolina lowcountry and the Atlantic world
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Columbia, S.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 396
Subjects: Huguenots -- South Carolina -- History; Huguenots -- Migrations -- History; South Carolina -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; South Carolina -- Ethnic relations; South Carolina -- Religious life and customs
Description: "From New Babylon to Eden traces the persecution of Huguenots in France and the eventual immigration of a small bloc of the French Calvinist population to proprietary South Carolina. Once there, rather than isolate themselves as a separate religious and cultural enclave, they chose instead to integrate into the Southern strain of nascent Anglo-American society. Through intermarriage and adaptation to the new economic, religious, and political environment, Huguenots soon numbered among the most influential and successful colonists and have left a persevering legacy throughout Charleston and the lowcountry.

In a volume devoted to the first generation of Carolina Huguenots, Bertrand Van Ruymbeke describes in detail their gradual transformation from French refugees to South Carolina planters."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: East of Eden : New Babylon; title: The Carolina proprietors and the recruitment of Huguenots : mercantilism and the Protestant cause; title: From New Babylon to Eden : the saga of the South Carolina Huguenots; title: The South Carolina Huguenots : a migration profile; title: The founding era : Carolina Huguenot religious life before 1700; title: Protestant majority : the Carolina Huguenots and the Church of England; title: Naturalization and representation : the Huguenots and early Carolina politics; title: Land, trade, and slaves : from rags to riches in proprietary South Carolina.