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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.… (meer)
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Clarke does a tremendous job recreating the lives of numerous people from one large multi-generational plantation community to paint the portrait of antebellum life in the Georgia low-country. So much of the popular imagination surrounding slavery is focused on the late-comer cotton, that it is refreshing to see slavery examined through rice and the much different rhythms of the labor system that surrounded it.
The result reads almost like an epic novel or melodrama--sort of a real-life counterpoint to revisionist fiction like Gone With the Wind. The standout stories here are the evangelical young family scion who begins with abolitionist leanings and ends as a slavery apologist and Confederate supporter; and the slaves he ministered to (or thought he ministered to) brought back to life through tremendous work with the extant sources.
May be a bit long for some, but if you want to take a deep dive into American slavery tied to a particular geographical area, you cannot do better than this book. ( )
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Dwelling Place is a history of two peoples living together on the Georgia coast from 1805 to 1869. It is a single narrative because their lives were linked and interwoven in innumerable and often intimate ways, and because this coastal land shaped all who lived along its rivers, by its swamps, and on its islands and sandy hills, even as those who lived there shaped the land itself. -Preface
Early on a March morning in 1805, as the first hints of dawn touched the Sea Islands and the marshland south of Savannah, Old Jupiter rose. went out of his cabin, and with a blast from his conch-shell horn announced a new day. -Chapter 1, Liberty Hall
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.
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The result reads almost like an epic novel or melodrama--sort of a real-life counterpoint to revisionist fiction like Gone With the Wind. The standout stories here are the evangelical young family scion who begins with abolitionist leanings and ends as a slavery apologist and Confederate supporter; and the slaves he ministered to (or thought he ministered to) brought back to life through tremendous work with the extant sources.
May be a bit long for some, but if you want to take a deep dive into American slavery tied to a particular geographical area, you cannot do better than this book. (