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22. Sept. 2015 · Robert B. Rhett’s Address of South Carolina to the People of the Slaveholding States, promulgated in 1860 by the secession convention in Charleston, is the subject of this essay. Robert Barnwell Smith (aka “Rhett”) was born on December 21, 1800, in the old Lowcountry district of Beaufort, South Carolina.
Robert Barnwell Rhett (1800-1876) was born at Beaufort, S.C., to James and Marianna Smith. He started practicing law there in 1824, was in the legislature in 1826, and was attorney general of South Carolina in 1832. The family name was changed from Smith to Rhett, a colonial ancestor, by an act of the legislature in 1838.
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16. Dez. 2010 · The senator had been born plain Robert Smith, to a family of modest means. He adopted the Rhett surname – one of the most aristocratic in South Carolina – from a distant ancestor, and then married into a small fortune. He was not a physically prepossessing man; his face was unusually florid, and, in the words of one newspaper correspondent ...
1. Mai 2000 · Never before published, Robert Barnwell Rhett's personal account of the years 1859 through 1865 is the most complete memoir to have survived from any member of South Carolina's Secession Convention and the Confederate Provisional Congress. Like Rhett, the writings are opinionated, contentious, arrogant, and unforgiving. They reveal much of ...
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Der Name Robert hat eine althochdeutsche Herkunft und einen mittelalterlichen Ursprung. Der Name wird mit „der Ruhm“ und „glänzend“ übersetzt, was zusammengesetzt die Bedeutung „der Anmutige“ und „der Strahlende“ ergibt. Besonders unter Adligen und Herrschern war der Name lange Zeit sehr beliebt.
William C. Davis's biography of Robert Barnwell Rhett provides a definitive picture of South Carolina's most prominent secessionist and arguably the best known in the nation during the two decades leading up to the Civil War. Dubbed the Father of Secession, Rhett attached himself to South Carolina statesman John C. Calhoun, but grew more zealous than his mentor on the secession issue. Rhett ...
