Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic

Nonfiction, History, Americas, United States, 19th Century
Cover of the book Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic by Erskine Clarke, Yale University Press
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Erskine Clarke ISBN: 9780300133288
Publisher: Yale University Press Publication: October 1, 2008
Imprint: Yale University Press Language: English
Author: Erskine Clarke
ISBN: 9780300133288
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication: October 1, 2008
Imprint: Yale University Press
Language: English
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 “upstairsdownstairs” 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.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
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 “upstairsdownstairs” 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.

More books from Yale University Press

Cover of the book In Praise of Forgetting by Erskine Clarke
Cover of the book The Book in the Renaissance by Erskine Clarke
Cover of the book From Victims to Suspects by Erskine Clarke
Cover of the book Murder in Tombstone: The Forgotten Trial of Wyatt Earp by Erskine Clarke
Cover of the book Black Hole by Erskine Clarke
Cover of the book Divine Love by Erskine Clarke
Cover of the book A Little History of Science by Erskine Clarke
Cover of the book Masters and Servants by Erskine Clarke
Cover of the book Siege of Acre, 1189-1191 by Erskine Clarke
Cover of the book From Goods to a Good Life: Intellectual Property and Global Justice by Erskine Clarke
Cover of the book Talent Wants to Be Free by Erskine Clarke
Cover of the book Proust in Love by Erskine Clarke
Cover of the book Investment in Blood by Erskine Clarke
Cover of the book Serial Black Face by Erskine Clarke
Cover of the book Knowledge of Things Human and Divine by Erskine Clarke
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy