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Author Miles, Tiya, 1970-

Title The house on Diamond Hill : a Cherokee plantation story / Tiya Miles
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 315 pages) : illustrations, maps
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
Summary At the turn of the nineteenth century, James Vann, a Cherokee chief and entrepreneur, established Diamond Hill, 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 its renovation in the 1950s. Vividly written and extensively researched, this history illuminates gender, class, and cross-racial relationships on the southern frontier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed February 2, 2021)
Subject Vann, James, 1765 or 1766-1809.
SUBJECT Vann, James, 1765 or 1766-1809
Vann, James, 1765 or 1766-1809 fast
Subject Chief Vann House (Spring Place, Ga.)
SUBJECT Chief Vann House (Spring Place, Ga.) fast
Subject Cherokee Indians -- Georgia -- History
Plantations -- Georgia -- Spring Place -- History
Plantation life -- Georgia -- Spring Place
HISTORY -- State & Local.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Native American Studies.
Cherokee Indians
Plantation life
Plantations
Gender & Ethnic Studies.
Ethnic & Race Studies.
Social Sciences.
Georgia
Georgia -- Spring Place
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009052891
ISBN 9780807868126
0807868124
9781469604343
1469604345