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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]
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 601 pages) : illustrations, maps
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.
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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.
Subject Enslaved persons -- Georgia -- Liberty County -- Biography.
Enslaved persons -- Georgia -- Liberty County.
Plantation life -- Georgia -- Liberty County -- History -- 19th century.
White people. (OCoLC)fst01174816
Jones, Charles Colcock, 1804-1863 -- Family.
African Americans -- Georgia -- Liberty County.
Plantation owners -- Georgia -- Liberty County.
African Americans -- Georgia -- Liberty County -- Biography.
Chronological Term 1800 - 1899
Subject Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century.
Plantation owners -- Georgia -- Liberty County -- Biography.
Liberty County (Ga.) -- Biography.
Genre/Form Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
Subject Liberty County (Ga.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
Liberty County (Ga.) -- Race relations.
Jones, Charles Colcock, 1804-1863.
Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
Georgia -- Liberty County. (OCoLC)fst01206492
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
Jones, Charles Colcock, 1804-1863. (OCoLC)fst00028568
White people -- Georgia -- Liberty County -- Biography.
Plantation life. (OCoLC)fst01065779
Plantation owners. (OCoLC)fst01065786
White people -- Georgia -- Liberty County.
Jones, Lizzy. (OCoLC)fst01605627
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Subject African Americans. (OCoLC)fst00799558
Jones, Lizzy -- Family.
Jones, Lizzy.
Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
Enslaved persons. (OCoLC)fst01120522
Liberty County (Ga.)
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 bk.)
0300133286 (electronic bk.)
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