The editors at the Pinckney Papers Projects are delighted to announce to the editing community the release/publication by the University of Virginia Press of Volume 3 of the Papers of the Revolutionary Era Pinckney Statesmen  “Experienced Statesmen in War, Politics, & Diplomacy (1799–1811).”

This 550-document volume of our born digital edition,  part of the Rotunda “Founding Era Collection” of digital editions, covers the roles of the Charles Cotesworth Pinckney as the major general for the southern army during the Quasi War with France 1798-1799, the politics of the election of 1800 when Charles Cotesworth Pinckney was the Federalist candidate for president, and the diplomatic mission of his cousin Charles Pinckney to Spain 1801-1805. It also contains correspondence of their wives and children, and records of their management of plantations, including several extensive inventories of enslaved people that provide data of plantation family relationships as well as the skills, health  and work assignments of the enslaved.