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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 214. Not illustrated. Chapters: Butler Family, Calhoun Family, Drayton Family, Hampton Family, Middleton Family, Pinckney Family, Rutledge Family, John C. Calhoun, Henry Middleton, Arthur Middleton, John Rutledge, Charles Pinckney, Lena Horne, William Stewart Halsted, Wade Hampton Iii, Middleton Place, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Matthew Butler, Eliza Lucas, Thomas Pinckney, Thomas Drayton, Pinckney Island National Wildlife Refuge, James Henry Hammond, Arthur Middleton Manigault, Thomas Green Clemson, Fort Hill (Clemson, South Carolina), Andrew Butler, Edward Rutledge, Drayton Hall, Magnolia Plantation and Gardens (Charleston, South Carolina), John Drayton, John S. Preston, Floride Calhoun, Percival Drayton, William Henry Drayton, John E. Colhoun, Hampton-Preston House, James Calhoun, Charles Pinckney National Historic Site, High Hampton Inn Historic District, Middleton-Rutledge-Pinckney Family, William Butler, Drayton Island, William Lowndes Calhoun, Pierce Mason Butler, John Rutledge, Jr., Henry L. Pinckney, William Drayton, Joseph Calhoun, William Drayton, Sr., Colonel Charles Pinckney, Patrick Calhoun. Excerpt: John Caldwell Calhoun (pronounced; March 18, 1782 March 31, 1850) was the seventh Vice President of the United States and a leading Southern politician from South Carolina during the first half of the 19th century. Calhoun, a brilliant orator and writer, began his political career as a nationalist and proponent of protective tariffs; later, he was a proponent of free trade, states' rights, limited government, and nullification. Calhoun built his reputation as a political theorist by his redefinition of republicanism to include approval of slavery and minority rights. His redefinition was widely accepted in the South and rejected in the North at the time. His defense of slavery became defunct, but his concept of concu...
