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In her tract Pinckney posed a series of thirty-four questions and answers designed to summarize the southern case for nullification, which she defined as “the Veto of a Sovereign State on an unconstitutional law of Congress.”

At the outbreak of war in 1775, Pinckney became a captain in the First South Carolina Continental regiment and was later promoted to major.

“Communal stew” is the name the southern cooking authority Stan Woodward gives stews made in big batches and cooked over open fires in large cast-iron pots also used for washing clothes.

Historically, the most abundant species in the coastal plain region was the longleaf pine (Pinus palustris).

The young Pinkney mixed his love of music with baseball, earning a pitching position with the New York Blue Sox in the Negro Baseball League.

Piracy flourished on the South Carolina coast chiefly in two periods: the early proprietary years (1670–1700) and at the end of the “Golden Age of Piracy” (1716–1720).

Pisé de terre, or “rammed earth,” is an ancient form of building construction.

Plank roads enjoyed a brief popularity in the early 1850s, touted as an inexpensive and effective means of improving short-distance travel.

Plantations distinguished themselves from smaller farms not only by the sheer size of their landholdings and workforce but in other ways as well.

South Carolina may conveniently be divided into four major physiographic provinces, and these are more or less consistent with characteristic vegetation types.

In the fall of 1862, the Union commander of the Department of the South, General Ormsby McKnight Mitchel, planned an operation to break the railroad connections between Charleston and Savannah at the headwaters of the Broad River near the towns of Pocotaligo and Coosawhatchie.

Restless by nature, Poellnitz in 1790 exchanged his Minto estate for a 2,991-acre plantation, Wraggtown (later Ragtown), on the Great Pee Dee River in Marlboro County, South Carolina.

This cultural organization helped revive the arts, not just in Charleston and South Carolina, but in the South in general.

A poet laureate is a poetry writer who is honored, officially or unofficially, as the most distinguished or representative poet of a country or region.

In 1817 John Wilson, the state’s civil and military engineer, proposed a toll road through the Saluda Gap in order to “attract a great portion of the trade of East Tennessee to this state.”

In 1819 Poinsett became president of the state Board of Public Works, actively supervising canals and roads built to link Charleston with the undeveloped interior, including a road through the Saluda Gap that brought trade from North Carolina and Tennessee.

Born in Charleston, Carrie, Mabel, and Anita Pollitzer were artists, activists, and social reformers.

From 1891 to 1893 Pollock served as clerk of the Committee on the District of Columbia in the U.S. House of Representatives.

The first polo game in South Carolina was played on March 27, 1882, in Aiken, which has remained a major center for the sport.

Pomaria Nursery was one of the most influential and prestigious nurseries of the antebellum South.