The Carolina Backcountry on the Eve of the Revolution - (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American Histo) by Charles Woodmason

About the Book

Carolina Backcountry on the Eve of the Revolution: The Journal and Other Writings of Charles Woodmason, Anglican Itinerant

Book Synopsis

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.

From the Back Cover

This book gives shapes to the daily life, thoughts, hopes, and fears of the frontier people. The story is set forth by one to the most extraordinary men who over sought out the wilderness.

Review Quotes

Brings to vivid life a period that most of our histories have left pale and uninteresting.New York Herald Tribune#

The book is essential to every library of colonial history or literature. ("Journal of Southern History")