ARP304 Jacksonborough Assembly

American Revolution Podcast

Michael Troy

Education, History

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🗓️ 24 March 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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At the beginning of 1782, both South Carolina and Georgia reestablish their state legislatures, primarily focused on the loyalists still in their states. General Sumter retires. John Laurens replaces Light Horse Harry Lee as the Continental Army's head of cavalry in South Carolina. Blog https://blog.AmRevPodcast.com includes a complete transcript, as well as pictures, and links related to this week's episode. Book Recommendation of the Week: Voices of the American Revolution in the Carolinas, by Ed Southern (borrow on archive.org). Online Recommendation of the Week: History of Elections in the American Colonies, by Cortland Bishop: https://archive.org/details/historyelection00bishgoog Join American Revolution Podcast on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/AmRevPodcast Ask your American Revolution Podcast questions on Quora: https://amrevpod.quora.com Join the Facebook group, American Revolution Podcast: https://www.facebook.com/groups/132651894048271 Follow the podcast on Twitter @AmRevPodcast Join the podcast mail list: https://mailchi.mp/d3445a9cd244/american-revolution-podcast-by-michael-troy ARP T-shirts and other merch: http://tee.pub/lic/AmRevPodcast Support this podcast on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/AmRevPodcast or via PayPal http://paypal.me/AmRevPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media Podcast. Hello, and thank you for joining the American Revolution.
0:19.2	This week, episode 304, The the Jacksonville Assembly.
0:24.0	For the last couple of weeks, we've been covering the continued fighting in South Carolina
0:28.5	following the British surrender at Yorktown in late 1781. While all that fighting continued, the Patriots were also making an effort to restore civilian rule in South Carolina and Georgia.
0:41.0	With the British restricted to Charleston where Navy cannons could
0:45.2	support the garrison, the remainder of South Carolina was largely in Patriot hands by
0:51.7	late 1781.
0:54.0	Governor Rutledge returned to the state
0:56.4	to begin the process of re-establishing
0:59.0	normal government functions.
1:01.2	Rutledge had been the civilian leader in South Carolina for almost the entire
1:05.9	revolution. Before the war, Rutledge had been a lawyer and a state legislator in the colonial
1:12.0	government.
1:13.2	He had been a long time foe of British taxation efforts serving as far back as the Stamp Act
1:18.9	Congress in 1765.
1:22.1	He also served as a delegate at the First and Second Continental Congresses, and in early 1776 he left Congress to become the first president of South Carolina, Congress even approved the Declaration of Independence.
1:36.8	While Rutledge was a proponent of an independent South Carolina, he was not necessarily a big fan of democracy.
1:45.0	In 1778, Rutledge vetoed a new constitution that he deemed too democratic.
1:51.7	When the legislature overrode his veto, he resigned from office.
1:56.4	The following year, the British captured Georgia and threatened to sake South Carolina.
2:01.4	At that point, the new governor of South Carolina resigned and the
2:05.0	legislature called upon Rutledge to once again take up the governorship. They
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