Recovering the Piedmont Past: Unexplored Moments in Nineteenth-Century Upcountry South Carolina History

A window into the social and cultural life of the South Carolina upcountry during the nineteenth century

The history of South Carolina's lowcountry has been well documented by historians, but the upcountry—the region of the state north and west of Columbia and the geologic fall line—has only recently begun to receive extensive scholarly attention. The essays in this collection provide a window into the social and cultural life of the upstate during the nineteenth century. The contributors ex...