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In An Anxious Pursuit, Joyce Chin examines the impact of the Enlightenment ideas of progress on the lives and minds of American ers in the colonial Lower South. She focuses particularly on the influence of Scottish notions of progress, tracing the extent to which ers in South Carolina, Georgia, and British East Florida perceived themselves as a modern, improving people. She reads developments in agricultural practice as indices of ers' desire for progress, and she demonstrates the central role played by slavery in their pursuit of modern life. By linking behavior and ideas, Chin has produced a work of cultural history that unites intellectual, social, and economic history. Using public records as well as ers' and farmers' private papers, Chin examines innovations in rice, indigo, and cotton cultivation as a window through which to see ers' pursuit of a modern future. She demonstrates that ers actively sought to improve their society and economy even as they suffered a pervasive anxiety about the corrupting impact of progress and commerce. The basis for their accomplishments and the root of their anxieties, according the Chin, were the same: race-based chattel slavery. Slaves provied the labor necessary to attain ers' vision of the modern, but the institution ultimately limited the Lower South's ability to compete in the contemporary world. Indeed, whites continued to wonder whether their innovations, some of them defied by slaves, truly improved the region. Chin argues that these apprehensions prefigured the antimodern stance of the antebellum period, but she contends that they were as much a reflection of the doubt inherent in theories of progress as an outright rejection of those ideas.

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