Charleston and the Emergence of Middle-class Culture in the Revolutionary Era
Charleston and the Emergence of Middle-class Culture in the Revolutionary Era

Author: Jennifer L. Goloboy

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 0820349968

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"Very humble servants": colonial merchants and the limits of middle-class power -- The revolution, John Wilkes, and middle-class mob rule -- City of knavery: trade before the War of 1812 -- Friendship and sympathy, family and stability -- The War of 1812 and commercial disaster -- Mercantile professionalism and Charleston as a cotton port