The travelers' Charleston
Subtitle: accounts of Charleston and lowcountry South Carolina, 1666-1861
By: edited by Jennie Holton Fant
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Columbia, South Carolina
Language: eng
Number of pages: 367
ISBN-13: 9781611175844; 9781611175851
Subjects: Sources; Description and travel; History
Description: The Travelers' Charleston is an innovative collection of firsthand narratives that document the history of the South Carolina lowcountry region, specifically that of Charleston, from 1666 until the start of the Civil War. Jennie Holton Fant has compiled and edited a rich and comprehensive history as seen through the eyes of writers from outside the South. She provides a selection of unique texts that include the travelogues, travel narratives, letters, and memoirs of a diverse array of travelers who described the region over time. Further, Fant has mined her material not only for validity but to identify any characters her travelers encounter or events they describe. She augments her resources with copious annotations and provides a wealth of information that enhances the significance of the texts.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Joseph Woory (1666): "Discovery"; title: John Lawson (early 1700s): "Charles Towne" and "Travel among the Indians"; title: Josiah Quincy Jr. (1773): "Society of Charleston"; title: Johann Schoepf (1782): "After the revolution"; title: John Davis (1798-99): "The woods of South Carolina"; title: John Lambert (1808): "Look to the right and dress!"; title: Samuel F.B. Morse (1818-1820): "Hospitably entertained and many portraits painted"; title: Margaret Hunter Hall (1828): "The dowdies and their clumsy partners"; title: James Stuart Esq. (1830): "Devil in petticoats"; title: Harriet Martineau (1835): "Many mansions there are in this hell"; title: John Benwell (1838): "July the 4th"; title: Fredrika Bremer (1850): "The lover of darkness"; title: William Makepeace Thackeray (1853 and 1855): "The fast lady of Charleston"; title: William Ferguson (1855): "Such a one's geese are all swans"; title: John Milton Mackie (late 1850s): "The last hour of repose"; title: Anna C. Brackett (1861): "Charleston, South Carolina, 1861".