The house on Diamond Hill : a Cherokee plantation story / Tiya Miles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miles, Tiya, 1970-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cherokee Indians--Georgia--History.

Cherokee Indians.

Plantations--Georgia--Spring Place--History.

Plantations.

Plantation life--Georgia--Spring Place.

Plantation life.

Chief Vann House (Spring Place, Ga.).

Vann, James, 1765 or 1766-1809.

Vann, James.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (334 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2010.

Summary:

At the turn of the nineteenth century, James Vann, a Cherokee chief and entrepreneur, established Diamond Hill in Georgia, the most famous plantation in the southeastern Cherokee Nation. In this first full-length study to reconstruct the history of the plantation, Tiya Miles tells the story of Diamond Hill's founding, its flourishing, its takeover by white land-lottery winners on the eve of the Cherokee Removal, its decay, and ultimately its renovation in the 1950's. This moving multiracial history sheds light on the various cultural communities that interacted within the plantation bou

Contents:

Contents; Housewarming: A Prologue; This Old House: An Introduction; Chapter 1. This Soul-House Built of Mud; Chapter 2. House-Raising; Chapter 3. The Big House/The Slave Quarter; Chapter 4. A House Divided; Chapter 5. House of Prayer; Chapter 6. In My Father's House Are Many Mansions; Bleak House: An Epilogue; Open House: A Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Appendix 1: Research Process, Methods, and Findings; Appendix 2: Black Slaves and Free Blacks on the Vann Plantation, Compiled by Julia Autry and William Chase Parker, Chief Vann House State Historic Site

Appendix 3: The Memoir of Margaret Ann Crutchfield (Peggy Scott Vann), Written by Anna Rosina GamboldNotes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780807868126

0807868124

OCLC:

676696387