| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.4

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Joanna Bowen Gillespie. The Life and Times of Martha Laurens Ramsay 1759–1811. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. 2001. Pp. xxviii, 315. $34.95.

Until recently, the Laurens family of South Carolina has been largely overlooked in the historiography of eighteenth-century America, a puzzling situation given the prominence of the family and the existence of a large number of primary source documents. Indeed, the Henry Laurens Papers of the South Carolina Historical Society in Charleston represents the richest collection of documents concerning any South Carolinian of the pre-1800 era, while the printed volumes (The Papers of Henry Laurens, 15 volumes to date,1968-) are the finest for any secondary figure of the period. Together, these resources offer a wealth of materials to scholars working in fields across the broad spectrum of the period. Recently, however, historians have come to recognize the compelling story present in the rapid rise and steady descent of the family in eighteenth and early nineteenth-century South Carolina. Henry Laurens and his son John have been, or soon will be, the subjects of several quality works. Now, Joanna Bowen Gillespie contributes this fine study of Martha Laurens Ramsay, Henry's eldest surviving daughter. . . .

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