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Article: From New Babylon to Eden: The Huguenots and Their Migration to Colonial South Carolina.(From New Babylon to Eden: The Huguenots and Their Migration to Colonial South Carolina, The Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World)(Book review)
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- The Journal of Southern History
- Article date:
- August 1, 2007
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From New Babylon to Eden: The Huguenots and Their Migration to Colonial South Carolina. By Bertrand Van Ruymbeke. The Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2006. Pp. xviii, 396. $49.95, ISBN 1-57003-583-0.)
The French Huguenots, at heart, remain a conundrum. Some two hundred thousand of these Calvinists fled France after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, with a small number of them coming to America. Yet, despite a deep religious faith and the searing experience of a forced exodus, these migrants assimilated fairly quickly into a British-dominated society, with many abandoning the church they had ...