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Trade, Politics, and Revolution: South Carolina and Britain’s Atlantic Commerce, 1730–1790: Frontmatter 1

Trade, Politics, and Revolution: South Carolina and Britain’s Atlantic Commerce, 1730–1790
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  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Notes on the Text
  9. Chronology
  10. Dramatis Personae
  11. Introduction: “A large territory on the Atlantic Ocean, in a temperate latitude”—South Carolina and Great Britain
  12. Chapter One: “The Metropolis of South Carolina”, London Lobbying and Charles Town Commerce
    1. Mercantilism and “Interest”
    2. Defense, Rice, and the Emergence of a Carolina Lobby in London
    3. Getting into the Carolina Trade
    4. Trading in Charles Town
    5. Relocating to Britain
  13. Chapter Two: “Friends to Assist at Home”, London’s Carolina Trade in the 1740s and 1750s
    1. “Carolina merchants”: The Composition and Organization of London’s Carolina Trade
    2. “Transactions with a few well chosen Friends”: The Concentration of London’s Carolina Trade
    3. “For which this Province is Greatly Oblig’d”: London Lobbying in the Early 1740s
    4. Trade and the “National Interest”
    5. “Indefatigable in the service of this Province”: The 1748 Indigo Bounty
  14. Chapter Three: “Cankers to the Riches of a Country”?, Transatlantic Absenteeism in Colonial South Carolina
    1. Conceptions of Absenteeism in Colonial South Carolina
    2. Acquiring Lands in South Carolina
    3. Retaining Assets in South Carolina
    4. Returns on Absentee-Owned Plantations
    5. Absenteeism and Agency
  15. Chapter Four: “From Humble & Moderate Fortunes to Great Affluence”, The Transatlantic Carolina Trade and Imperial Crises
    1. “Supported by the Whole Body of Merchants in London”
    2. “The important services they have done to America in General”
    3. “Commissions & profits arising from such Trade”
    4. “Join to quench the growing Evil”
    5. “I don’t know that we have a Zealous friend or Advocate among the Merchants”
    6. “Parties in the attempt against us”
  16. Chapter Five: The Voyage of the Lord North, American Independence, Anglo-Carolinian Trade, and Unfinished Business
    1. “The usual intercourse of Commerce be again resumed”: London Merchants and Wartime Lobbying
    2. “Enjoyment on one side, and Restrictions on the other”: The Restoration of Anglo-American Trade
    3. “Commerce again shall lift her drooping head”: The Resumption of Anglo-Carolinian Trade
    4. “Members and heads of a British faction”: Anti-British Sentiment in Charleston
    5. “Manifestly far from being cordial Friends”: Echoes of Prewar Trade
    6. “After a Storm at Sea is over”: British Merchants and the Postwar Carolina Trade
    7. “No lawful impediments”: Pursuing Prewar Debts in Britain and South Carolina in the 1780s
    8. “Carolina disappointments”: Assessing the Debts in the 1790s
  17. Conclusion: “Let me have done with American lands”
  18. Abbreviations
  19. Notes
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index

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