In this Book
- The Carolina Backcountry on the Eve of the Revolution: The Journal and Other Writings of Charles Woodmason, Anglican Itinerant
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: The University of North Carolina Press
- Series: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia
summary
In what is probably the fullest and most vivid extant account of the American Colonial frontier, The Carolina Backcountry on the Eve of the Revolution gives shape to the daily life, thoughts, hopes, and fears of the frontier people. It is set forth by one of the most extraordinary men who ever sought out the wilderness--Charles Woodmason, an Anglican minister whose moral earnestness and savage indignation, combined with a vehement style, make him worthy of comparison with Swift. The book consists of his journal, selections from the sermons he preached to his Backcountry congregations, and the letters he wrote to influential people in Charleston and England describing life on the frontier and arguing the cause of the frontier people. Woodmason's pleas are fervent and moving; his narrative and descriptive style is colorful to a degree attained by few writers in Colonial America.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. i-vi
- Introduction
- pp. xi-xl
- Part One: The Journal of the Rev. Charles Woodmason
- Part Two: Society and Institutions of the Backcountry
- Part Three: The Regulator Documents
Additional Information
ISBN
9781469611501
Related ISBN(s)
9780807806432, 9780807840351, 9781469600024, 9798890886910
MARC Record
OCLC
578699904
Pages
344
Launched on MUSE
2016-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No