Speaker at the Center with Author Carl Borick

Carl P. Borick, author of Backcountry Resistance, delivers a groundbreaking account of the citizen militias that defied British forces in South Carolinas volatile Backcountry during the pivotal Southern campaign of the Revolutionary War. Focusing on rank-and-file militiamen, Borick explores how these ordinary men were recruited, armed, fed, and motivated. Drawing on underused pension records and state claims, he reconstructs their everyday realities and their battlefield experiences. He also
examines the wars devastating effects on civilians, including enslaved people andwomen, who played crucial roles in the struggle.Richly detailed and grounded in the human experience of warfare, Backcountry Resistance offers the most comprehensive portrait to date of South Carolinas militia during the decisive years of the American War of Independence. Carl P. Borick is Director of the Charleston Museum in Charleston, South Carolina, and the author of Relieve Us of This Burthen: American Prisoners of War in the Revolutionary South, 1780-1782 (USC Press, 2011) and A Gallant Defense: The Siegeof Charleston, 1780 (USC Press, 2003).

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