South Carolina – Antebellum Period – 1784-1860

South Carolina SC History SC Antebellum Period

Antebellum Maps, Documents

• Maps
• Documents about Southern slaves - Duke University
• Experience of a Slave in South Carolina by John Andrew Jackson - 1862
• Paul Hamilton Papers, US Secretary of the Navy - 1802-1812 - University of South Carolina
  

Antebellum Events

• George Washington's 1791 South Carolina tour
• History of Rice in Charleston and Georgetown
• South Carolina in the Mexican War

Antebellum Notable People

• James Gadsden - statesman
• William Gilmore Simms - writer
  – Research Fellowships and South Caroliniana Library
  – William Gilmore Simms Society