| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.3

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World of Toil and Strife: Community Transformation in Backcountry South Carolina, 1750–1805. By Peter N. Moore. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2007. xvi, 175 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-1-57003-666-8.)
The Waxhaws region is famed as the birthplace of Andrew Jackson, the colorful (and controversial) Indian fighter turned president. In a short, well-written study, Peter N. Moore argues that this community on the border of North Carolina and South Carolina should be known for much more. He uses this region in the lower Catawba River valley to challenge the view that upcountry South Carolina was a static backwater until the arrival of cotton planters in the early nineteenth century.	1
White settlement of the Waxhaws began in the 1750s with the arrival of Scots-Irish Presbyterians from Pennsylvania, Virginia, and elsewhere. They built what Moore calls a "yeoman" community centered on church, kinship, and farming. But, by 1800, the Waxhaws had evolved into a very different place. Rising population, a vibrant land market, and out-migration eroded the kin-based neighborhoods of the 1750s. Wheat became profitable, land became a commodity to be sold for a profit, and slavery spread rapidly.	. . .

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