| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 315 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Chief Vann House (Spring Place, Ga.)
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Chief Vann House (Spring Place, Ga.) |
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Vann, James, 1765 or 1766-1809.
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Vann, James, 1765 or 1766-1809. |
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Cherokee Indians -- Georgia -- History.
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Cherokee Indians. |
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Georgia. |
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History. |
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Plantations -- Georgia -- Spring Place -- History.
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Plantations. |
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Georgia -- Spring Place. |
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Plantation life -- Georgia -- Spring Place.
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Plantation life. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Miles, Tiya, 1970- House on Diamond Hill. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2010 9780807834183 (DLC) 2009052891 (OCoLC)495475390 |
| ISBN |
9780807868126 (electronic book) |
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0807868124 (electronic book) |
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9781469604343 (electronic book) |
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1469604345 (electronic book) |
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9780807834183 |
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0807834181 |
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