Download or read book The Expansion of South Carolina, 1729-1765 (Classic Reprint) written by Robert Lee Meriwether and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-27 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Expansion of South Carolina, 1729-1765 The process which filled the back country with small farmers was not the only colonial expansion. An older and more spectacular movement, long before the settlement of the piedmont, carried English trade and influence into the heart of the continent. The earlier chapters of this story have been written with rare Skill by Verner W. Crane in his Southern Frontier. The progress of the South Carolina back country, as in the case of several other colonies, was at times profoundly affected by the Indian trade and its ac companying alliances, and a subordinate but important part of my work has been to set forth, from a superabundance of material, the later stages of imperial development. For the actual processes of South Carolina settlement - the primary con cern of this book - there are, in comparison with other states, enormous and surprisingly complete records. Of material for some of the most important phases of intellectual life and daily routine, however, there 'is little or none. It is partly to compensate for the incompleteness of the picture, partly for their own inherent interest, that I have devoted so much attention to the prosaic yet eloquent records of individual settlers in their eager quest of land. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.