Patriots, Pistols, and Petticoats: Poor Sinful Charles Town During the American Revolution

by Walter J. Fraser Jr.

Overview

Patriots, Pistols, and Petticoats vividly portrays the lively—at times bawdy—atmosphere in Charleston during the Revolutionary War era. This brawling port city—the fourth largest in Britain's North American colonies and the largest in the South at the time of the Revolutionary War—boasted commerce, politics, cultural events, and entertainment as sophisticated as any found in America. From the city's taverns and streets to the drawing rooms of its elite, from its shipping trade to its agriculture to its political rivalries, Walter Fraser's thorough research and revealing anecdotes offer an entertaining and informative history of this distinguished city and its role in the colonial fight for independence.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780872498969
Publisher:	University of South Carolina Press
Publication date:	12/13/2011
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	178
Sales rank:	95,348
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.41(d)

About the Author

Walter J. Fraser, Jr., is professor of history and chair of the history department at Georgia Southern University. Author of Charleston! Charleston!: A History of a Southern City, Fraser has coedited three books and published articles and reviews in publications such as Journal of American History, Journal of Southern History, South Carolina Historical Magazine, and Georgia Historical Quarterly.

What People are Saying About This

University of South Carolina Robert M. Weir

A good, sound introduction to the Revolutionary period in Charleston; this is popular history, accurate and readable.

College of Charleston L. Wayne Jordan

A rich and fascinating tapestry.

The Citadel Jamie W. Moore

[Charleston's] fall in 1780 was England's finest hour and America's worst defeat of the Revolutinary War. But the American cause persisted: in the devotion of rebels drawn from all classes, in the defiance of residents of British-occupied Charles Towne, and in the bloody civil war in the Carolina backcountry, that dragged on long after Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown.

Charleston's News and Courier Jack Leland

A well-rounded history of a decade of Charleston history that played a major role in the founding of the nation.