From New Babylon to Eden: The Huguenots and Their Migration to Colonial South Carolina

by Bertrand Van Ruymbeke

A revealing account of the choices French immigrants faced as they settled in South Carolina

Winner of the National Huguenot Society's 2007 Book of the Year award, From New Babylon to Eden traces the persecution of Huguenots in France and the eventual immigration of a small bloc of the French Calvinist population to proprietary South Carolina. Once there, rather than isolate themselves as a separate religious and cultural enclave,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570035830
• ISBN13: 9781570035838
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.1"