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Identifier: charlestonplacep00rav (find matches)
Title: Charleston, the place and the people, by St. Julien Ravenel. With illustrations by Vernon Howe Bailey
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Ravenel, Harriott Horry, 1832-1912
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Publisher: New York, Macmillan
Contributing Library: University of Maryland, College Park
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that in the management of slaves the true interestsof the planter were in exact accordance with the dic-tates of an enlightened humanity. It was with him arule through life to treat his slaves with the utmost liber-ality and kindness, while he never relaxed the reins of awholesome discipline. His rule was to provide them withdwellings of the best description, and to allow them sup-plies of every kind on the most liberal scale. The conse-quence was that his numerous plantations were models ofneatness and order, and his slaves always presented anappearance of health and comfort which spoke well fortheir treatment. They were devotedly attached to theirmaster whose service they would not have exchanged forany other upon earth. . . . His system was based upona calculation of practical results. It was not the slavesonly who were to be made prosperous and happy. If theywere among the best treated in the State, his crops werealways abundant, and his rice of the finest quality. 436 CHARLESTON
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The Pringle House Until compelled by increasing infirmities to retirefrom the world, his house was the abode of a refined andelegant hospitality. . . . Courteous in his manners, socialin his disposition, surrounded with a large circle of friends WAR OF 1812. NULLIFICATION 437 and blessed with an ample fortune his tastes and habitswere for many years those of a Carolina gentleman ofthe old school. Colonel Alston survived to 1839, dying in his eighty-third year, a consistent member of the Episcopal Church. His house in King Street, through the marriage of hisyoungest daughter to Mr. William Bull Pringle, is nowknown as the Pringle house. In 1822 occurred the only really serious threat of servileinsurrection which had threatened Charleston since thatincited by the Spaniards at St. Augustine in 1739. By this time the disputes consequent upon the admissionto the Union of the new States of the Louisiana Purchasewere raging. The abolition party was violent. It was proved thatcertain negroes

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