Dwelling Place
A Plantation Epic
Clarke, Erskine
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BOOK SUMMARY
Published some thirty years ago, Robert Manson Myerss Children of Pride: The True Story of Georgia and the Civil War won the National Book Award in history and went on to become a classic reference on Americas slaveholding South. That book presented the l
BOOK SYNOPSIS
Published some thirty years ago, Robert Manson Myerss Children of Pride: The True Story of Georgia and the Civil War won the National Book Award in history and went on to become a classic reference on Americas slaveholding South. That book presented the letters of the prominent Presbyterian minister and plantation patriarch Charles Colcock Jones (18041863), whose family owned more than one hundred slaves. While extensive, these letters can provide only one part of the story of the Jones family plantations in coastal Georgia. In this remarkable new book, the religious historian Erskine Clarke completes the story, offering a narrative history of four generations of the plantations inhabitants, white and black.
Encompassing the years 1805 to 1869, Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic describes the simultaneous but vastly different experiences of slave and slave owner. This upstairsdownstairs history reveals in detail how the benevolent impulses of Jones and his family became ideological supports for deep oppression, and how the slave Lizzy Jones and members of her family struggled against that oppression. Through letters, plantation and church records, court documents, slave narratives, archaeological findings, and the memory of the African-American community, Clarke brings to light the long-suppressed history of the slaves of the Jones plantationsa history inseparably bound to that of their white owners.
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 030012256X
ISBN(13-digit): 9780300122565
Dewey Decimal: 305.8960730758733
Library of Congress: oc2007067337
Book Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 601
Paper Weight (lb): 2.30 lb
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