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Author Clarke, Erskine, 1941-

Title Dwelling place : a plantation epic / Erskine Clarke.

Publication Info. New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, [2005]
©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 601 pages) : illustrations, maps
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 509-576) and indexes.
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.
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Subject Jones, Charles Colcock, 1804-1863 -- Family.
Jones, Charles Colcock, 1804-1863.
Families.
Jones, Lizzy -- Family.
Jones, Charles Colcock, 1804-1863.
Jones, Lizzy.
Jones, Lizzy.
Plantation life -- Georgia -- Liberty County -- History -- 19th century.
Plantation life.
Georgia -- Liberty County.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Plantation owners -- Georgia -- Liberty County -- Biography.
Plantation owners.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject White people -- Georgia -- Liberty County -- Biography.
White people.
Enslaved persons -- Georgia -- Liberty County -- Biography.
Enslaved persons.
African Americans -- Georgia -- Liberty County -- Biography.
African Americans.
Liberty County (Ga.) -- Biography.
Liberty County (Ga.) -- Race relations.
Liberty County (Ga.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
Liberty County (Ga.)
Chronological Term 1800 - 1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Biographies.
Other Form: Print version: Clarke, Erskine, 1941- Dwelling place. New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, ©2005 0300108672 9780300108675 (DLC) 2005003958 (OCoLC)57694725
ISBN 9780300133288 (electronic book)
0300133286 (electronic book)
9780300108675
0300108672
1281731455
9781281731456