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South Carolina Legal Research

Antebellum Couple

Slavery and Civil Rights

History and Sociology of South Carolina

The Colonial Era

Beginnings: Education in Colonial South Carolina, SC LA361 .J69 1985

Colonial and Revolutionary History of Upper South Carolina: Embracing for the Most Part the Primitive and Colonial History of the Territory Comprising the Original County of Spartanburg, With a General Review of the Entire Military Operations in the Upper Portions of South Carolina and Portions of North Carolina (to be acquired)

Colonial South Carolina: A History,  SC F272 .W46 1997

Colonial South Carolina: A Political History, 1663-1763, SC F272 .S5 1966

The Colonial South Carolina Scene: Contemporary Views, 1697-1774, SC F272 .C73 1977

Economic Beginnings in Colonial South Carolina, SC HC107.S7 C56 1971

First Settlers of South Carolina, 1670-1680, SC F272 .B3 1969

Gentlemen of the Bar: Lawyers in Colonial South Carolina, SC KFS1878 .C36 1987

An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Hewatt, Alexander. Volume 1.  London, [1779]

An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Hewatt, Alexander. Volume 2. London, [1779]

Huguenots of Colonial South Carolina, SC F280.H8 H6 1999

Laboratory for Liberty: The South Carolina Legislative Committee System, 1719-1776, SC JK83 .S6 F7 1970

A New and Accurate Account of the Provinces of South-Carolina and Georgia: with Many Curious and Useful Observations on the Trade, Navigation and Plantations of Great-Britain, Compared with Her Most Powerful Maritime Neighbours in Antient and Modern Times. Oglethorpe, James. London, 1732.

The Public Treasury of Colonial South Carolina, SC HJ687 .C76 1977

Religion and Politics in Colonial South Carolina, SC BR555.S6 B75 1983

Royal South Carolina, 1719-1763, SC F272 .B35 1970

Soldiers and Uniforms: South Carolina Military Affairs, 1670-1775, SC UA440 .M3 1971

South Carolina Begins: The Records of a Proprietary Colony, SC F272 .L57 1995

South Carolina as a Royal Province 1719-1776, SC F272 .S66 1970

White Servitude in Colonial South Carolina, SC HD4875 .S65 1961

The Revolutionary Era

  • Battleground of Freedom: South Carolina in the Revolution,  SC E263.S7 H62 1970
  • "A Most Important Epoch": The Coming of the Revolution in South Carolina (to be acquired)

  • The Partisan War: The South Carolina Campaign of 1780-1782 SC F273 .W36 1970
  • The South Carolina Civil War of 1775 SC E263.S7 J75 1975
  • South Carolina in the Confederation (to be acquired)

Biography

  • Robert Johnson: Proprietary and Royal Governor of South Carolina, SC F272.J57 S5 1966                                                                                                                                      
  • Selections from the Letters and Speeches of the Hon. James H. Hammond, of Sourth Carolina, SC E415.6 .H35 1978

The Civil War and Reconstruction in South Carolina


  • At Freedom's Door: African American Founding Fathers and Lawyers in Reconstruction South Carolina, SC E185.93.S7 A8 2005
  • Francis Warrington Dawson and the Politics of Restoration: South Carolina, 1874-1889, SC F274 .C5 1980
  • Guide to Civil War Records: A Guide to the Records in the South Carolina Department of Archives and History, SC CD3047 .M33 1994
  • The Promised Land: The History of the South Carolina Land Commission, 1869-1890, SC F274 .B55 1969
  • South Carolina During Reconstruction, SC F274 .S57 1966

  • South Carolina Scalawags, SC F274 .R83 2006
  • The Work of Reconstruction: From Slave to Wage Laborer in South Carolina, SC F274 .S38 1994






Post-Reconstruction

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