| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.3

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Book Review

In the Affairs of the World: Women, Patriarchy, and Power in Colonial South Carolina. By Cara Anzilotti. (Westport: Greenwood, 2002. x, 216 pp. $64.95, ISBN 0-313-32031-4.)
Scholarship on white women in Britain's North American colonies initially focused on New England and the Chesapeake. Even then, South Carolina's Eliza Lucas Pinckney served as a women's history month poster colonist because she managed estates and devised a means of producing indigo. Marylynn Salmon's work on the legal history of these women and especially the economic activities of femes soles traders contributed further to our understanding of colonists' opportunities and limitations.	1
Cara Anzilotti reconsiders this image of South Carolina planter women, suggesting that, rather than relishing autonomy, they worked to augment their fortunes for the benefit of their families. Tropical disease killed even young adults, leaving widows responsible for managing plantations. With better demographic odds in the nineteenth century, women spent less of their lives as widows.	. . .

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