This week, we get into the American Revolution with The Patriot! Join us for a discussion about South Carolina, free people of color during the Revolution, bundling, and the answer to the question "Just how revolutionary was the American Revolution, anyway?"

Sources:

Film Background:

"The Patriot". IMDB. Available at https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0187393/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Gary Dretzka, "'The Patriot' Writer Always Combat Ready," Chicago Tribune. Available at https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2000-07-02-0007020278-story.html

"Spike Lee Slams Patriot," The Guardian. Available at https://www.theguardian.com/film/2000/jul/06/news.spikelee

Constance Grady, "Mel Gibson Set the Blueprint for a #MeToo Comeback. Expect Other Men to Follow It." Available at https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/7/24/17460392/mel-gibson-comeback-metoo-times-up

Roger Ebert's Review of "The Patriot". Available at https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-patriot-2000

South Carolina in the Revolution:

"The Patriot: More Flag-waving Rot with Mel Gibson," The Guardian, available at https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/jul/22/the-patriot-mel-gibson-reel-history

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-swamp-fox-157330429/ "[M]." In The South Carolina Encyclopedia Guide to the American Revolution in South Carolina, edited by Edgar Walter, 69-80. Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 2012. Accessed July 6, 2020. doi:10.2307/j.ctv6wgc8r.17.

Wendy Smith book review of Holger Hoock's book Scars of Independence https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2017/05/18/dark-violence-and-atrocities-revolutionary-war/X4Kr4EzUUrNeVmnrNeSh2N/story.html

Jane Kamensky, NY Times review: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/books/review/scars-of-independence-americas-violent-birth-holger-hoock.html

Holger Hoock, "Mangled Bodies: Atrocity in the American Revolutionary War"

"[T]." In The South Carolina Encyclopedia Guide to the American Revolution in South Carolina, edited by Edgar Walter, 112-14. Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 2012. Accessed July 6, 2020. doi:10.2307/j.ctv6wgc8r.22. National Parks Bio, https://www.nps.gov/cowp/learn/historyculture/lieutenant-colonel-banastre-tarleton.htm

Cherokee War: https://web.archive.org/web/20021012214056/http://www.ricehope.com/history/CherokeeWar1760.htm

Daniel Morgan: https://www.nps.gov/cowp/learn/historyculture/daniel-morgan.htm

Bundling:

Yochi Fischer-Yinon, "The Original Bundlers: Boaz and Ruth, and Seventeenth-Century English Courtship Practices," Journal of Social History 35, 3 (Spring 2002)

Ellen K. Rothman, "Sex and Self Control: Middle-Class Courtship in America, 1770-1870," Journal of Social History 15, 3 (Spring 1982)

Richard Godbeer, "Courtship and Sexual Freedom in Eighteenth-Century America," OAH Magazine of History 18, 4 (July 2004)

Samantha Pugsley, "I Waited Until My Wedding Night to Lose My Virginity and I Wish I Hadn't." Available at https://thoughtcatalog.com/samantha-pugsley/2014/08/i-waited-until-my-wedding-night-to-lose-my-virginity-and-i-wish-i-hadnt/

African Americans in the Revolution:

Michael Lee Lanning, "African Americans in the Revolutionary War," available at https://media.lanecc.edu/users/escobarj/transfer/PDF_collection/African%20Americans%20in%20the%20Revolutionary%20War.pdf

Elizabeth Brabec and Sharon Richardson, "A Clash of Cultures: The Landscape of the Sea Island Gullah" Landscape Journal 26, 2007

Philip D. Morgan (ed.), African American Life in the Georgia Lowcountry: The Atlantic World and the Gullah Geechee (University of Georgia Press, 2010)

"[A]." In The South Carolina Encyclopedia Guide to the American Revolution in South Carolina, edited by Edgar Walter, 7-9. Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 2012. Accessed July 6, 2020. doi:10.2307/j.ctv6wgc8r.5.

Maroon Communities in South Carolina: A Documentary Record. United States: University of South Carolina Press, 2009.

"Heads of Families in the First Census," available at https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1790/heads_of_families/south_carolina/1790k-02.pdf#

Amy Catherine Green, Dance Dance Revolution: The Function of Dance in American Politics, 1763-1800. Available at https://scholarworks.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6015&context=etd

Social Revolutions:

Theda Skocpol, States and Social Revolutions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979.

Alfred Young, "American Historians Confront the 'Transforming Hand of Revolution'" in Whose Revolution Was It? Historians Interpret the Founding. New York: NYU Press, 2001.

Robin Blackburn, "Haiti, Slavery, and the Age of Democratic Revolution," William and Mary Quarterly 63, 4 (Oct. 2006)