The Grim Years: Settling South Carolina, 1670-1720

"The compelling story of a colony besieged by meteorological, epidemiological, economic, and manmade catastrophes only to arise like the phoenix." —Orville Vernon Burton, author of The Age of Lincoln

During South Carolina's settlement, a cadre of men rose to political and economic prominence, while ordinary colonists, enslaved Africans, and indigenous groups became trapped in a web of violence and oppression. John J. Navin explains how eight English aristocrats, the Lords Proprietors, came ...