Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

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The Swamp Fox

The Swamp Fox

Revisiting South Carolina's revolutionary past

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Kathryn Smith
Nov 14, 2021
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The Swamp Fox
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I’ll admit it. What aroused my interest in South Carolina’s Revolutionary War hero Francis Marion, the Swamp Fox, was the fact that he broke his ankle to avoid drinking himself under the table at a dinner party in Charleston. I found this story so enchanting that I related it in my new book Baptists and Bootleggers: A Prohibition Expedition Through the …

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