Lecture by S. Max Edelson, Dept. of History, University of Virginia; ARTH 2753 - Arts & Cultures of the Slave South, UVA, 2/21/2011

1. Geography, Settlement, and Slavery in Colonial South Carolina S. Max Edelson Corcoran Department of History

3. Herman Moll, A New and Exact Map of the Dominions of the King of Great Britain on ye Continent of North America (1715)

11. Women pounding rice in West Africa . . . . . . and in the Lowcountry Rice Creating a new staple Rice as food for Africans for Europeans

13. The rice landscape in the Carolina Lowcountry, c. 1790 Elizabeth and Edward Hyrne, fl. 1700-1708 Settling a plantation Becoming slave owners Adapting to Carolina

15. South Carolina: core plantation zone

17. South Carolina: secondary extension to the Edisto and Santee Rivers

20. Core vs. Frontier

22. William De Brahm, Map of South Carolina and a Part of Georgia (London, 1757)

23. SC and Ga.: 1757, 1760

25. Detail, William De Brahm, Map of South Carolina and a Part of Georgia (London, 1757)

26. Detail, William De Brahm, Map of South Carolina and a Part of Georgia (London, 1757)

27. How settlement shaped society Households England and Wales, 1755 Adult Population: 3.3 million % legal dependents: 39.8% Mainland colonies, 1774 Adult Population: 1.0 million % Legal dependents: 54.4

28. How settlement shaped society Slavery and land “stock”: a special kind of human capital “hands”: human capacity to change “wilderness” into “civilization”