The Shaftesbury Papers
South Carolina Historical Society
New Preface by Robert M. Weir
New Introduction by Charles H. Lesser
The Shaftesbury Papers, first published in 1897 as volume five of the Collections of the
South Carolina Historical Society, is the most important and sweeping accumulation
of correspondence relating to South Carolina’s founding as a proprietary colony. It is
composed largely of the papers of Anthony Ashley Cooper, first Earl of Shaftesbury and
foremost of the proprietors responsible for the colony’s founding. It details, as no other
published document can, the proprietary colony’s struggle to survive the lowcountry’s
harsh environment and establish a civilization that in many ways resembled England’s
wealthiest Caribbean colony, Barbados.
The Shaftesbury Papers is an invaluable resource for historians, genealogists, and
those interested in South Carolina’s early years. This reprint edition includes a preface
by Robert M. Weir, professor emeritus of history at the University of South Carolina, and
an introduction by Charles H. Lesser of the South Carolina Department of Archives and
History.
Distributed for Home House Press
June 2010, 546 pages
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“The Shaftesbury Papers is a volume
that everyone interested in the history
of South Carolina will want to have in
their libraries. It is a rich collection of
letters and documents that provides
tremendous insight into the founding
of the colony of Carolina. The South
Carolina Historical Society is to be congratulated for making this indispensable volume available once again.”
—Walter Edgar, author of South Carolina: A History
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