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Four men sit with a pile of turtle eggs on the beach at Pawleys Island. Edwin Kaminski sits on the far right.

The Anabaptists differed from other Protestants in that they insisted on a conscious choice to join the church (adult baptism), a disciplined church in which members were responsible to each other, and a sharing church in which material needs were met by fellow members. They rejected the union of church and state and the validity of oaths and self-defense, including military service.

By the 1960s the property had become a monastery that housed the Trappist monks of the Cistercian Order. The monks of Mepkin Abbey began operating an egg farm, which was still functioning in the early twenty-first century, with several buildings on the property associated with that function.

Beyond its popular appeal, the mermaid touched on disputes among natural historians over the fertility of “hybrid” creatures, the existence of intermediate species in the “great chain of being,” and the unity of humankind.

The debate over slavery at the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1844 resulted in the division of the denomination into northern and southern branches.

Methodism was not warmly received among the planter and merchant elite classes in the lowcountry.

The roots of the Mexican War can be traced to westward expansion following the War of 1812. Many Americans, including many South Carolinians migrating west in search of cheap land, settled in northern Mexico where liberal land grants of as much as four thousand acres were available.

Charlestonians who received scientific works from Michaux included the Pinckney family, the Library Society of Charleston, the South Carolina Medical Society, and the botanist Stephen Elliott.

Michelin and South Carolina made a successful match. The company was not secretive about its conservative character and dislike of unions, and in South Carolina, Michelin found a base that suited its corporate values and business objectives.

Middleton Place is an Ashley River plantation located on Highway 61 (Ashley River Road) just outside Charleston.