Charles Pinckney
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A PARTIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PINCKNEY WRITINGS


Observations on the Plan of Government Submitted to the Federal Convention, in Philadelphia, on the 28th of May, 1787. New York: Francis Childs, [October] 1787. Reprinted in Max Farrand, ed. Records of the Federal Convention, vol. 3 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966), 106-23.

Observations to Shew the Propriety of the Nomination of Colonel James Monroe to the Presidency of the United States by the Caucus at Washington. Charleston, 1816.

Three Letters Addressed to the Public, on the Following Subjects: I. The Nature of a Federal Union É II. The Civil and Military Powers É III. The Public Debt. [signed Tullius] Philadelphia, 1783.

Three Letters, Written, and Originally Published under the Signature of a South Carolina Planter: The First, on the Case of Jonathan Robbins; the Second, on the Recent Capture of American Vessels by Britishers; the Third, on the Right of Expatriation. Philadelphia, 1799. Also published in Charleston as Three Letters, Addressed to the People of the United States, Which have Lately Appeared under the Signature of "A South-Carolina Planter". .. On the Case of Jonathan Robbins É On the Recent Captures of the British Cruisers .. . On the Claims of the British Creditors. 1799. Available at Charleston Library Society, pamphlet series 3, vol. 12.

Speeches of Charles Pinckney, Esq. in Congress; On the subject of having Impartial Juries, by Lot, in all the Federal Courts. On the independence of the Judges in the same Courts. On the exclusive Right of the State Legislatures, and under their direction, of the People, to the Election of the President É On the defined Privileges of Congress, and the Liberty of the Press. And, On the Intercourse Bill with France. Philadelphia, 1800. The first two are reprinted in Maeva Marcus, ed. The Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789-1800. vol. 4 (New York: Columbia University Press, ), 621-27, 630-36. See also Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States, Sixth Congress. Washington, D.C.: 1855.

Letters to Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe concerning 1800 presidential election. Reprinted in "South Carolina in the Presidential Election of 1800." American Historical Review 4 (1898), 111-29.

Speech to New Jersey Legislature, March 16, 1786. "Account of a Deputation of Congress to the Assembly of New Jersey." American Museum 2 (1787): 153-60.

"Speech of Mr. Charles Pinckney É. at a very numerous Meeting of the Citizens of Charleston, the 22nd July, 1795." In Henry Tuckniss, ed. The American Remembrancer; or, an Impartial Collection of Essays, Resolves, Speeches, Etc. Relative, or Having Affinity to the Treaty with Great Britain (Philadelphia, 1795), I.

Address in U.S. House of Representatives on Missouri Question. The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States É 1789-1824, 42 vols. Washington, D.C., 1834-56. 16th Cong., 2d sess., 1310-29, February 14, 1820. Reprinted in Niles Weekly Register, July 15, 1820, 349-57.

Mr. Charles Pinckney's Speech, In Answer to Mr. Jay É on the Question of a Treaty with Spain, Delivered in Congress, August 16, 1786. [New York?], 1786.

Speeches to South Carolina legislature and South Carolina Ratifying Convention. In Elliott, Jonathan, ed. The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution. 2d ed. Philadelphia, 1861. Vol. 4, 253-63, 318-36. Reprint. Philadelphia, 1937.

"On the Election of the President of the United States." A Series, by a Republican. [Charleston] City Gazette, August 28, September 3, 4, 5, 6, 13, 16, 18, 19, 22, 25, 26, 29, 30, October 1, 3, 6, 14.

Messages of the Governors. Archives of South Carolina. Columbia, South Carolina.

Forty-five letters from Pinckney to Robert R. Livingston, written 1801-1805 while Pinckney was minister to Spain. Robert R. Livingston Papers. New-York Historical Society.

Letters of Pinckney to Secretary of State James Madison and to Spanish officials. American State Papers, Foreign Relations. Vol. 2. Washington, D.C.


SOURCES CONSULTED


Adams, Henry. History of the United States of America During the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson. New York: Library of America, 1986.

Baldwin, William P. Jr. Plantations of the Low Country. Greensboro, NC: Legacy Publications, 1985.

Bancroft, George. History of the United States. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1896.

Berlin, Ira. Many Thousand Gone, The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998.

Blassingame, John W. The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1972, 1979.

Brant, Irving. James Madison: Father of the Constitution, 1780-1800. Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill Company, 1950.

Brockington and Associates. "Archeological Data Recovery at Long Point Plantation." Atlanta: Brockington and Associates, 1991.

Brockington, Paul E. Jr., Linda F. Stone, and Connie M. Huddleston. Searching for the Slave village at Snee Farm Plantation: The 1987 Archeological Investigations. Atlanta: Brockington and Associates, 1994.

Brugger, Robert J., et al., eds. The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State, vol. 1. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1986.

Buchanan, P., B. Herman, O. Rideout, V. E. Tolson, and M. Wenger. "Architectural Investigations at Snee Farm." Friends of Snee Farm, 1991.

Carney, Judith A. "The Role of African Rice and Slaves in the History of Rice Cultivation in the Americas." Human Ecology 26 (December 1998): 525-45.

Carney, Judith A. "Rice Milling, Gender and Slave Labor in Colonial South Carolina." Past and Present 156 (November 1996): 108-34.

Chaplin, Joyce E. "Tidal Rice Cultivation and the Problem of Slavery in South Carolina and Georgia, 1760-1815." William and Mary Quarterly 49 (January 1992): 29-61.

Charleston County Deed Book, Plat #2355 and #5564.

Charleston County Report Book, 27 April 1808-7 March 1818: 398-99.

Coclanis, Peter A. "Bitter Harvest: The South Carolina Low Country in Historical Perspective." Journal of Economic History 45 (June 1985): 251-59.

"Colonel Miles Brewton and Some of His Descendants." South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine 2 (1901): 144-47.

Creel, Margaret Washington. Peculiar People: Slave Religion and Community Culture Among the Gullah. New York: New York University Press, 1988.

Dunsinberre, William. Them Dark Days: Slavery in the American Rice Swamps. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

E[lliot], W[illiam] S[avage]. "Honorable Charles Pinckney, LL.D., of South Carolina." DeBow's Review 33 (July-August 1864).

Easterby, J. Harold. "Charles Pinckney." Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's and Sons, 1946.

Edgar, Walter B. Historic Snee Farm: A Documentary Record. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Department of History, 1991.

Egan, Clifford L. "The United States, France and West Florida, 1803-1807." Florida Historical Society Quarterly (January 1969): 227-252.

Farrand, Max, ed. The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787. Rev. ed. 4 vols. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966.

Ferguson, Leland to Bennie C. Keel, 11 October 1995. Tallahassee: National Park Service, Southeast Archeological Center.

Ferguson, Leland. Uncommon Ground, Archeology and Early African America, 1650-1800. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Press, 1992.

Finkelman, Paul. Slavery and the Founders: Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson. Armonk &, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1996.

Gomez, Michael A. Exchanging our County Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.

Gregorie, Anne King. Christ Church, 1706-1959, A Plantation Parish of the South Carolina Establishment. Charleston: The Dalcho Historical Society, 1961.

Hilliard, Sam Bowers. Hog Meat and Hoecake: Food Supply in the Old South 1840-1860. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1972.

Historic Resources of the Lowcountry. Yemassee, South Carolina: Lowcountry Council of Governments, 1979.

Hudson, Larry E., Jr. To Have and to Hold: Slave Work and Family Life in Antebellum South Carolina. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1997.

Hunt, Galliard, and J. B. Scott, eds. Writings of James Madison. vol. 9. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1907-1910.

Jameson, J. Franklin. "Charles Pinckney's Plan for a Constitution." American Historical Review 8, no. 3 (1903): 509-11.

Joyner, Charles Winston. "Slave Folklife on the Waccamaw Neck: Antebellum Black Culture in the South Carolina Lowcountry." Ph.D. diss., University of Pennsylvania, 1977.

Kaplanoff, Mark D. "Charles Pinckney and the American Republican Tradition." In Intellectual Life in Antebellum Charleston, ed. by Michael O'Brien and David Moltke-Hansen. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1986.

Keel, Bennie C. "Research Proposal for Archeological Investigations of a Mid-18th Century Structure at Charles Pinckney National Historic Site." Tallahassee: National Park Service, Southeast Archaeological Center, 1998, photocopied.

Keel, Bennie C. SEAC Chief Archeologist. Interview by Emily Kleine, July 13, 1999, and October 20, 1999, conducted at Mt. Pleasant, SC.

Kennedy, Roger G. Architecture, Men, Women and Money in America, 1600Ð1860. New York Random House, 1985.

King, Julia A. Archaeological Investigations at Charles Pinckney's Snee Farm, Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina. Mt. Pleasant: Friends of Snee Farm, 1992

Lander, Ernest M., Jr. "The South Carolinians at the Philadelphia Convention, 1787." South Carolina Historical Magazine 57 (1956): 134-55.

"The Letters of Thomas Pinckney." South Carolina Historical Magazine 58 (1957).

Littlefield, Daniel C. Rice and Slaves: Ethnicity and the Slave Trade in Colonial South Carolina. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1981.

McLaughlin, A. C. "Sketch of Pinckney's Plan for the Constitution, 1787." American Historical Review 9, no. 4 (1904): 735-47.

Meyer, Michael J. "Itrasite Spatial Patterning on a Colonial Site in the South Carolina Low Country: The Archeology of Charles Pinckney's Snee Farm." Master's Thesis, Florida State University, 1998.

Meyer, Michael J. to Superintendent, Charles Pinckney National Historic Site, 21 April 1998. National Park Service, Southeast Archeological Center: Tallahassee.

Morgan, Philip D. "Work and Culture: The Task System and the World of Lowcountry Blacks, 1700 to 1880." William and Mary Quarterly 39 (October 1982): 563-99.

Morison, Samuel Eliot, and Henry Steele Commager. The Growth of the American Republic. 4th ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1951.

Morris, Richard B. The Forging of the Union. New York: Harper & Row, 1987.

Moultrie, William. Memoirs of the American Revolution So Far As It Pertains To The States of North and South Carolina and Georgia. vol. 1. New York: D. Longworth, 1802.

Mufwene, Salikoko S. "The Ecology of Gullah's Survival." American Speech 72 (Spring 1997): 7-10.

National Park Service, Historic American Buildings Survey, Snee Farm, SC-87. Atlanta: National Park Service, 1991.

National Register Bulletin 15: How to Apply the National Register Criteria for Evaluation. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1991.

Phillips, Ulrich B. "The South Carolina Federalists, II." The American Historical Review 14 (1908-9): 731-43.

Powers, Bernard, "A Founding Father and Gullah Culture." National Parks 72 (Nov./Dec. 1998): 26-29.

Public Law 100-421, September 8, 1988, 102 Stat. 1581-1582.

Rogers, George C., Jr. Charleston in the Age of the Pinckneys. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1980.

Roper, Louis H. "The Unraveling of an Anglo-American Utopia in South Carolina." Historian, A Journal of History 58 (Winter 1996): 277-87.

Rosengarten, Dale. "Spirits of our Ancestors: Basket Traditions in the Carolinas." In The Crucible of Carolina: Essays in the Development of Gullah Language and Culture, ed. by Michael Montgomery, 133-75. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1994.

Rossiter, Clinton. 1787: The Grand Convention. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1966.

Schwalm, Leslie A. A Hard Fight for We: Women's Transition from Slavery to Freedom in South Carolina. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1997.

Singleton, Theresa A. "Archeology of Afro-American Slavery in Coastal Georgia: A Regional Perception of Slave Household and Community Patterns." Ph.D. diss., University of Florida, 1980.

Smith, Julia Floyd. Slavery and the Rice Culture in Low County Georgia, 1750-1860. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1985.

Smith, Paul H. Letters of Delegates to Congress, 1774-1789. vol. 18. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1991.

"South Carolina in the Presidential Election of 1800." American Historical Review 4, no. 1 (1898): 111-129.

Stoney, Samuel G. Plantations of the Lowcountry. Charleston: Carolina Art Association, 1938.

"The Thomas Pinckney Family of South Carolina." South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine 39 (1938): 15-35.

Townsend, Jan, John H. Sprinkle, Jr., and John Knoerl. National Register Bulletin 36: Guidelines for Evaluating Historical and Archeological Sites and Districts. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1993.

Vincent, Susan Hart. Charles Pinckney National Historic Site Cultural Landscape Report. Atlanta: National Park Service, 1998.

Vlach, John Michael. Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993.

William Matthews vs. Henry Horlbeck et al. 7 April 1844. Charleston Court of Appeals. 1844-1845: 197-200.

Williams, Frances Leigh. A Founding Family: The Pinckneys of South Carolina. New York Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978.

Wolfe, John Harold. Jeffersonian Democracy in South Carolina. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1940.

Wood, Peter H. Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion. New York: Norton & Company, 1974.

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