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Cover 1 Title Page, Copyright 2 Preface 8 Contents 12 Illustrations and Tables 14 Abbreviations 16 Chapter 1. Perspectives on the Development of a Plantation Region 20 Chapter 2. The Fate of Progress in the Early Lower South 40 Chapter 3. Being Exotic 83 Chapter 4. The Local Work Ethic 109 Chapter 5. Projects and Power 148 Chapter 6. Crisis and Response: Indigo and Cotton 202 Chapter 7. Crisis and Response: Tidal Rice Cultivation 242 Chapter 8. Creating a Cotton South 292 Chapter 9. Factories and Fields 345 Epilogue: Slavery, Progress, and the "Federo-national" Union 371 Statistical Method 382 Bibliography 384 Index 412 Publisher:The University of North Carolina Press,Published:2012,ISBN:9781469600512,Related ISBN:9780807820841,Language:English,OCLC:966868956 In An Anxious Pursuit, Joyce Chaplin examines the impact of the Enlightenment ideas of progress on the lives and minds of American planters in the colonial Lower South. She focuses particularly on the influence of Scottish notions of progress, tracing the extent to which planters in South Carolina, Georgia, and British East Florida perceived themselves as a modern, improving people. She reads developments in agricultural pra

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Author
Chaplin, Joyce E.
Publisher
Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press
Published
2012
Language
EN
ISBN
9780807820841
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
History, Agriculture, Humanities
Updated
2026-03-24

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