Excerpt from Charleston: The Place and the PeopleThis book has not the slightest pretension to be the continuous history of the City of Charleston.The Writer has simply chosen from the story of its two hundred and fifty years such events as seem to her to' have had most to do in Shaping the fortunes of the men who made the town, or best to illustrate the character of their children who have lived in it.What that fortune and character were, it is to be hoped the book may Show. The writer has made no attempt to judge her people; has only tried to draw them as they appeared to themselves and to their contemporaries.With this View she has used, wherever possible, the accounts of the actors in the drama, or of those who knew them 'best, - the earliest histories and memoirs to be found, especially the publications of the Hon. William A. Courtenay, and of the Historical Society of South Caro lina, the Shaftesbury Papers, and others.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.