The letters of Freeman, etc.
Subtitle: essays on the nonimportation movement in South Carolina
By: collected by William Henry Drayton ; edited with an introd. and notes by Robert M. Weir.
Contributors: Gadsden, Christopher, 1724-1805.; Mackenzie, John, d. 1771.; Wragg, William, 1714-1777.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Tricentennial edition ; no. 6
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 1977
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 157
Subjects: United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Causes -- Sources.; South Carolina -- Politics and government -- To 1775 -- Sources.; Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- Commerce -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
A few letters by Christopher Gadsden, John Mackenzie, and William Wragg are included.
"The letters ... were written in ... South Carolina, in the year 1769, in consequence of the resolutions which had been formed in that colony on the 28th of June and the 22d of July in the same year, to prevent the importation of British manufactures .... The ... letters ... are ... now delivered to the public in the order in which they appeared in the South Carolina gazette."
Reprint of the 1771 ed. printed in London.