Robert Pringle Letterbook

Résumé du livre

Topics include credit, bonds, and the shipment of rice and other goods including pitch, tobacco, rum, brandy, wine, sugar, cloth, and guns on various ships. Pringle discusses his experiments in gardening (planting orange and olive trees), trade in Charleston, planters' attempts to increase the price of rice by holding back their market crops, the sale and the education of slaves, the Stono Rebellion (1739), the smallpox epidemic in Charleston (1738), Oglethorpe's ill-fated expedition against St. Augustine (1741), and other local and international events.