South Carolina Backcountry, 1736-1800
George Lloyd Johnson, Jr. ISBN 9-313-30179-4
224 pages, Greenwood Press, publication date: October 30,
1997
Reviews:
Replete with tables and maps documenting economic growth and geographic expansion, this work should appeal particularly to specialists in the Colonial period, the South, or the frontier experience.
-Choice
This is a well documented carefully argued book written in a lively and engaging prose. It deserves a wide audience of scholars in history, anthropology, American studies, women’s studies, southern history, and culture studies, and most certainly, of interested lay persons. It is an n exceptional piece of scholarship that I highly recommend.
-William and Mary Quarterly
[T]he strength of this book is in its details and in the sensitivity of its topics of such individual subjects as “Religious Diversity” and “Material Culture and Slaves” …Johnson’s book represents a piece of valuable research, and this reviewer commends it to anyone who has a serious interest in the early history of the Pee Dee or the backcountry in general.
-The Journal of Southern History
This is a well-done local study that has effectively mined available sources to provide an interesting picture of an eighteenth-century South Carolina community.
-The Journal of American History
Johnson’s excellent account served by his easily readable style and supplemented by the generous use of graphs, tables, and several of his own photographs about life in one rural backcountry area of South Carolina, the Welsh Tract of the upper Pee Dee. Johnson’s rich history is highly recommended for those who are eager to read further about our social roots in the eighteenth century.
-South Carolina Historical Magazine