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Dwelling place : a plantation epic / Erskine Clarke.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Clarke, Erskine, 1941-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jones, Lizzy.
- Jones, Charles Colcock, 1804-1863.
- African Americans.
- Enslaved persons.
- Families.
- White people.
- Plantation owners.
- Plantation life.
- History.
- Georgia--Liberty County.
- Plantation life--Georgia--Liberty County--History--19th century.
- Jones, Charles Colcock, 1804-1863--Family.
- Jones, Charles Colcock.
- Plantation owners--Georgia--Liberty County--Biography.
- White people--Georgia--Liberty County--Biography.
- Jones, Lizzy--Family.
- Enslaved persons--Georgia--Liberty County--Biography.
- African Americans--Georgia--Liberty County--Biography.
- Liberty County (Ga.)--Biography.
- Liberty County (Ga.).
- Liberty County (Ga.)--Race relations.
- Liberty County (Ga.)--Social life and customs--19th century.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 601 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, [2005]
- Summary:
- Published some thirty years ago, Robert Manson Myers's "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 America's slaveholding South. That book presented the letters of the prominent Presbyterian minister and plantation patriarch Charles Colcock Jones (1804-1863), 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 plantations--a history inseparably bound to that of their white owners.
- Contents:
- 1 Liberty Hall 1
- 2 Riceboro 10
- 3 Sunbury 19
- 4 The Retreat 33
- 5 Carlawter 44
- 6 Savannah 55
- 7 Scattered Places 67
- 8 Princeton 82
- 9 Solitude 97
- 10 Montevideo and Maybank 111
- 11 The Stations 125
- 12 The Mallard Place 140
- 13 The Arbors 152
- 14 Columbia 167
- 15 Carlawter II 180
- 16 South Hampton 190
- 17 Midway 202
- 18 Maybank 216
- 19 Arcadia 233
- 20 The Retreat II 247
- 21 Columbia II 260
- 22 Philadelphia 278
- 23 Carlawter III 300
- 24 Arcadia II 317
- 25 Maybank II 330
- 26 Slave Market 345
- 27 Patience's Kitchen 362
- 28 Montevideo 374
- 29 The Retreat III 386
- 30 Southern Zion 397
- 31 Indianola 408
- 32 The Refuge 422
- 33 The Promised Land 443.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 509-576) and indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0300108672
- OCLC:
- 57694725
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