The Regulators | Palmetto Special

In this section, the "Palmetto Special" leaves Columbia and travels to Spartanburg County. At the beginning of the program the Fall Line is defined, along with an introduction to the backcountry, the frontier of South Carolina. In addition, the storyline of the dramatic portion is established. At the conclusion, Walnut Grove Plantation is highlighted and the fate of the Requlator movement discussed.

The Reenactment: George and Emma Carter, along with their son, Michael, have migrated from Virginia to the backcountry of South Carolina, as had many others in the area. They become victims of a crime wave, and George, a Regulator, along with other Regulator neighbors, captures and punishes the culprits. Subsequently, charges are filed against George for taking the law into his own hands and he is summoned to Charleston to stand trial.

Major locations for the reenactment include:

1. Walnut Grove Plantation, Roebuck, Spartanburg County.
2. The Price House, Spartanburg County.
3. The Robert Mills House, Columbia, Richland County.

The situation in today's lesson is one that might have occurred. The characters are fictitious. Rev Woodmason, who is mentioned, was a real person and a champion for the rights of the backcountry people.

Standards

• 8.1.CX Contextualize the development of South Carolina’s political institutions during the colonization of British North America.
• This indicator was designed to encourage inquiry into the development of the political structure of the South Carolina colony from the development of Charles Towne under English control to the movement toward self-rule.
• 8.1.P Summarize major events in the development of South Carolina which impacted the economic, political, and social structure of the colony.
• This indicator was designed to encourage inquiry into the development of South Carolina as a result of mercantilist policies, which ranged from the Navigation Acts to trade with Native Americans to the use of enslaved people as labor. This indicator was designed to promote inquiry into agricultural development, using the rice-growing knowledge of the enslaved West Africans.
• 8.1.E Utilize a variety of primary and secondary sources to examine multiple perspectives and influences of the economic, political, and social effects of South Carolina’s settlement and colonization on the development of various forms of government across the colonies.

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