Volume One: This volume, which spans the long period from the sixteenth century through the Civil War era, is remarkable for the religious, racial, ethnic, and

The biographical essays in this volume provide new insights into the various ways that South Carolina women asserted themselves in their state and illuminate th

Prior to the twenty-first century, most historical writing about women in South Carolina focused on elite White women, even though working-class women of divers

"In The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina, Gerda Lerner, herself a leading historian and pioneer in the study of Women's History, tells the story of these dete