Cotton and Compromise: Charles Pinckney and the Political Unification of South Carolina 1788-1808

Author

Hunter Glenn Upchurch

Date of Award

2006

Document Type

Undergraduate Thesis

Department

History

First Advisor

Sheila Skemp

Relational Format

Dissertation/Thesis

Abstract

This project surveys the life and times of South Carolinian Charles Pinckney after he participated in the Constitutional Convention of 1787. My objective was to discern how Pinckney’s political career both mirrored and contributed to South Carolina’s gradual shift away from Federalism towards Jeffersonian-Republicanism, as the western “Up-Country” region slowly took power from the more traditional, coastal “Low- Country.” To achieve this goal, I examined hundreds of pages of primary sources, including Pinckney’s extant speeches, his published articles or pamphlets, and many of his personal letters. To augment my factual and historiographical knowledge of the early national period of United States history, I reviewed dozens of secondary sources. I found that factors in Pinckney’s personal life combined with his acute political acumen to push him away from the social class in which he was bom, the Federalist-dominated, wealthy elite of Charleston.

Recommended Citation

Upchurch, Hunter Glenn, "Cotton and Compromise: Charles Pinckney and the Political Unification of South Carolina 1788-1808" (2006). Honors Theses. 2447.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/hon_thesis/2447

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