Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "Very humble servants": colonial merchants and the limits of middle-class power
  • The revolution, John Wilkes, and middle-class mob rule
  • City of knavery: trade before the War of 1812
  • Friendship and sympathy, family and stability
  • The War of 1812 and commercial disaster
  • Mercantile professionalism and Charleston as a cotton port.