The Carolina Backcountry on the eve of the Revolution : the Journal and other writings of Charles Woodmason, Anglican itinerant / edited with an introduction by Richard J. Hooker.

By: Woodmason, Charles, approximately 1720-approximately 1776 [author.]Contributor(s): Hooker, Richard J. (Richard James), 1913- [editor.]Material type: TextTextChapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 1986©1953 Edition: Fifth printing: April 1986Description: xxxix, 305 pages ; 21 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0807840351 (paperback)Uniform titles: Journal Subject(s): Church of England -- South Carolina -- Sermons | Frontier and pioneer life -- South Carolina | Sermons, American | South Carolina -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- SourcesLOC classification: F272 .W66 1986
Contents:
The journal of the Rev. Charles Woodmason -- Society and institutions of the backcountry -- The South Carolina Regulator movement -- The Regulator documents.
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.
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"Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, Va., by the University of North Carolina Press".--(page iii).

Includes bibliographgical references andi index.

The journal of the Rev. Charles Woodmason -- Society and institutions of the backcountry -- The South Carolina Regulator movement -- The Regulator documents.

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.