The Dawn of Religious Freedom in South Carolina
Burton, Orville Vernon / Clarke, Peter / Gergel, Belinda L. / Gergel, Richard J. / Herr, David / Moore, Alexander / Poole, W. Scott / Underwood, James Lowell / Burke, W.Lewis
Although South Carolina's colonial charter promised a safe harbor of religious freedom for these who were oppressed, eighteenth-century religious minorities in the colony found their rights were subjugated to those of the Anglicans. The Dawn of Religious Freedom in South Carolina contains eight essays by historians and legal scholars that trace the quest for religious equality by Protestant dissenters, Huguenots, Jews, Quakers, Afro-Carolinian...