South Carolina Loyalists in the American Revolution

An interest in the Georgia loyalists which I developed during a brief residence in that state exposed me to the fact that except for Robert W. Barnwell Loyalism in South Carolina 1765-1785 (Ph.D. dissertation Duke University 1941) South Carolina''s loyalists in the Revolution had not been studied in any comprehensive way. Although Barnwell''s study showed a firm grasp of the principal groups and individuals in the province and state who dissented from the decision to seek independence it had not been expanded to a monograph; meanwhile much material particularly from British sources had become more readily accessible and it seemed worthwhile to undertake such a study.--Robert Stansbury Lambert