Creating a plantation province: proprietary land policies and early settlement patterns / Meaghan N. Duff -- The Huguenots of proprietary South Carolina: patterns of migration and integration / Bertrand Van Ruymbeke -- The state in the planters' service: politics and the emergence of a plantation economy in South Carolina / Gary L. Hewitt -- The organization of trade and finance in the Atlantic economy: Britain and South Carolina, 1670-1775 / R.C. Nash -- Colonial South Carolina's rice industry and the Atlantic economy: patterns of trade, shipping, and growth, 1715-1775 / Stephen G. Hardy -- Indian traders, Charles Town, and London's vital links to the interior of North America, 1717-1755 / Eirlys M. Barker -- "All & singular the slaves": a demographic profile of Indian slavery in colonial South Carolina / William L. Ramsey -- This is "Mines": slavery and reproduction in colonial Barbados and South Carolina / Jennifer Lyle Morgan -- Affiliation without affinity: skilled slaves in eighteenth-century South Carolina / S. Max Edelson -- "Practical justice": The Justice of the Peace, the Slave Court, and local authority in mid-eighteenth-century South Carolina / Robert Olwell -- "Melancholy and fatal calamities": disaster and society in eighteenth-century South Carolina / Matthew Mulcahy -- "Planters full of money": the self-fashioning of the eighteenth-century South Carolina elite / Edward Pearson -- Economic power among eighteenth-century women of the Carolina lowcountry: four generations of Middleton women, 1678-1800 / G. Winston Lane Jr. -- Investing widows: autonomy in a nascent capitalist society / Elizabeth M. Pruden -- "Adding to the church such as shall be saved": the growth in influence of evangelicalism in colonical South Carolina, 1740-1775 / Thomas J. Little