World of Toil and Strife: Community Transformation in Backcountry South Carolina, 1750-1805 explores how land, people, and faith shaped a restless frontier. Based on rich local records, it traces shifts in land markets, migration, and community life in the Waxhaws and surrounding areas. The book blends economic, social, and religious history to show how postwar land deals, inheritance, and settlement patterns changed who owned land, where families lived, and how neighborhoods formed. It highlights the rise of a two-part land economy and the ways in which quick profits, debts, and heirs influenced daily life and long-term community ties. - Learn how colonial land grants, market changes, and postwar prices altered land ownership and settlement. - See how kinship, religion, and neighborhood boundaries interacted with economic forces. - Discover the dynamics of the blackjack district vs. bottomland markets and their impact on migration. - Understand how everyday decisions about land and family legacy shaped a region’s transformation. Ideal for readers of early American frontier life, migration, and regional religious history, this edition offers a clear, grounded look at how a mid-Atlantic frontier became a densely connected community.