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Author Clarke, Erskine, 1941-

Title Dwelling place : a plantation epic / Erskine Clarke
Published New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 601 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Liberty Hall -- Riceboro -- Sunbury -- The Retreat -- Carlawter -- Savannah -- Scattered Places -- Princeton -- Solitude -- Montevideo and Maybank -- The Stations -- The Mallard Place -- The Arbors -- Columbia -- Carlawter II -- South Hampton -- Midway -- Maybank -- Arcadia -- The Retreat II -- Columbia II -- Philadelphia -- Carlawter III -- Arcadia II -- Maybank II -- Slave Market -- Patience's Kitchen -- Montevideo -- The Retreat III -- Southern Zion -- Indianola -- The Refuge -- The Promised Land
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 'upstairs-downstairs' 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 509-576) and indexes
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Jones, Charles Colcock, 1804-1863 -- Family
Jones, Lizzy -- Family
SUBJECT Jones, Charles Colcock, 1804-1863 fast
Jones, Lizzy fast
Subject Plantation life -- Georgia -- Liberty County -- History -- 19th century
Plantation owners -- Georgia -- Liberty County -- Biography
White people -- Georgia -- Liberty County -- Biography
Enslaved persons -- Georgia -- Liberty County -- Biography
African Americans -- Georgia -- Liberty County -- Biography
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century.
African Americans
Families
Manners and customs
Plantation life
Plantation owners
Race relations
Enslaved persons
White people
SUBJECT Liberty County (Ga.) -- Biography
Liberty County (Ga.) -- Race relations
Liberty County (Ga.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
Subject Georgia -- Liberty County
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780300133288
0300133286
9786611731458
6611731458