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Book Review | The Journal of American History, 86.1 | The History Cooperative

Masters, Slaves, & Subjects: The Culture of Power in the South Carolina Low Country, 1740-1790. By Robert Olwell. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998. xviii, 294 pp. Cloth, $49.95, isbn 0-8014-3488-2. Paper, $17.95, isbn 0-8014-8491-X.)

Robert Olwell's study of late-eighteenth-century South Carolina traces the evolution of a colonial society with slaves into a colonial slave society. As masters styled themselves and their public institutions after British models, they learned to use those institutions to keep slaves subject to their rule. Active resistance by slaves, however, forced modifications of the British order. Dominance and resistance, continuously and publicly asserted, provided a dynamic for structural change, especially in law, church, economy, and household. From this process emerged a society unmistakably British, yet also very foreign. . . .

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