Recommended reading:

Declaration of Separation by Henry Felder

South Carolinians in the War for American Independence

Alexia Jones Helsley, South Carolina Dept. of Archives and History

A Roadside Guide to SC Counties in the American Revolution

Alexia Jones Helsley, County Focus, Abbeville – Florence, SC 2016 to present (Quarterly column for County Focus, published by South Carolina Association of Counties)

The South Carolina Militia in the Revolutionary War: Captain Henry Felder & the Backcountry Defense

John Brian Eleazer, The History Press

African-American Patriots in the Southern Campaign of the American Revolution

Bobby G. Moss & Michael C. Scoggins

The Importance of South Carolina in the American Revolution

Alexia Jones Helsley, Aiken County Historical Society, Aiken, South Carolina

Victory Day – Winning American Independence: The Defeat of the British Southern Strategy

Kenneth Scarlett, Palmetto Publishing

Parker’s Guide to the Revolutionary War in South Carolina, Third Edition

John C. Parker, Jr.

‘Such as are absolutely Free’: Benjamin’s Thompson’s Black Dragoons.

Journal of the American Revolution

Todd W. Braisted.

Death or Liberty: African Americans and Revolutionary America 

Douglas R. Egerton.

The Negro in the American Revolution 

Benjamins Quarles.

‘They Were Good Soldies’ African–Americans Serving in the Continental Army, 1775–1783 

John U. Rees

The War of the Revolution
Christopher Ward, edited by John Richard Walden, Volumes One & Two, 1952

The Fierce People, The Untold Story of America’s Revolutionary War in the South
Alan Pell Crawford, Alfred A. Knopf, publisher (2024)