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Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic by Erskine Clarke

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Binding
Hardcover
Weight
2 lbs
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ISBN
9780300108675
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Yale University Press
ISBN-10
0300108672
ISBN-13
9780300108675
eBay Product ID (ePID)
45390044

Product Key Features

Book Title
Dwelling Place : a Plantation Epic
Number of Pages
624 Pages
Language
English
Topic
United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), United States / 19th Century, General, Customs & Traditions, Historical, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year
2005
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Author
Erskine Clarke
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
36.9 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.2 in

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Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2005-003958
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"Erskine Clarke's narrative of more than three generations of interlocking and enslaving familes in Liberty County, Georgia, is epic in its scope and mastery. With extensively detailed research and evocatively restrained writing, Dwelling Place is one of the best books ever on what it meant in day-to-day terms to be slaves and slave masters in the antebellum South."-Mark Noll, University of Notre Dame, author of America's God, from Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln, "Erskine Clarke's narrative of more than three generations of interlocking and enslaving familes in Liberty County, Georgia, is epic in its scope and mastery. With extensively detailed research and evocatively restrained writing, Dwelling Place is one of the best books ever on what it meant in day-to-day terms to be slaves and slave masters in the antebellum South." Mark Noll, University of Notre Dame, author of America's God, from Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln, "Clarke's magisterial, multiperspective study of the antebellum South describes two family groups . . . and those of their slaves. . . . [Clarke] achieves . . . a 'total' history of interconnected people divided by race, legal status, and gender."- Choice, "Clarke's magisterial, multiperspective study of the antebellum South describes two family groups . . . and those of their slaves. . . . [Clarke] achieves . . . a 'total' history of interconnected people divided by race, legal status, and gender."�Choice, �In this masterful composite biography, Erskine Clarke�an uncommonly gifted historian�portrays a broad swath of southern history. It is a work of both consummate scholarship and great literary flair. It is long, but one doesn�t want it to end. I absolutely loved reading this book.��John Boles, Rice University, "This is a work of grand sweep and great power. In a form that reads like a novel, Erskine Clarke tells the stories of four generations of wealthy white planters and their slaves and the extraordinarily complex ways in which these two communities interacted. It is a multigenerational tale of black and white, told in a grand narrative style."--Dan T. Carter, University of South Carolina, "In this masterful composite biography, Erskine Clarke-an uncommonly gifted historian-portrays a broad swath of southern history. It is a work of both consummate scholarship and great literary flair. It is long, but one doesn't want it to end. I absolutely loved reading this book."-John Boles, Rice University    , "This is a work of grand sweep and great power. In a form that reads like a novel, Erskine Clarke tells the stories of four generations of wealthy white planters and their slaves and the extraordinarily complex ways in which these two communities interacted. It is a multigenerational tale of black and white, told in a grand narrative style."-Dan T. Carter, University of South Carolina, "Erskine Clarke's narrative of more than three generations of interlocking and enslaving familes in Liberty County, Georgia, is epic in its scope and mastery. With extensively detailed research and evocatively restrained writing, "A Dwelling Place" is one of the best books ever on what it meant in day-to-day terms to be slaves and slave masters in the antebellum South."--Mark Noll, Wheaton College, author of "America's God, from Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln", "Erskine Clarke's narrative of more than three generations of interlocking and enslaving familes in Liberty County, Georgia, is epic in its scope and mastery. With extensively detailed research and evocatively restrained writing, Dwelling Place is one of the best books ever on what it meant in day-to-day terms to be slaves and slave masters in the antebellum South."-Mark Noll, University of Notre Dame, author of America's God, from Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln    , "Erskine Clarke's narrative of more than three generations of interlocking and enslaving familes in Liberty County, Georgia, is epic in its scope and mastery. With extensively detailed research and evocatively restrained writing, "A Dwelling Place" is one of the best books ever on what it meant in day-to-day terms to be slaves and slave masters in the antebellum South."-Mark Noll, Wheaton College, author of "America's God, from Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln", "In this masterful composite biography, Erskine Clarke-an uncommonly gifted historian-portrays a broad swath of southern history. It is a work of both consummate scholarship and great literary flair. It is long, but one doesn't want it to end. I absolutely loved reading this book."-John Boles, Rice University, �This is a work of grand sweep and great power. In a form that reads like a novel, Erskine Clarke tells the stories of four generations of wealthy white planters and their slaves and the extraordinarily complex ways in which these two communities interacted. It is a multigenerational tale of black and white, told in a grand narrative style.��Dan T. Carter, University of South Carolina, "Clarke's magisterial, multiperspective study of the antebellum South describes two family groups . . . and those of their slaves. . . . [Clarke] achieves . . . a 'total' history of interconnected people divided by race, legal status, and gender." Choice
Dewey Decimal
305.896/0730758733
Synopsis
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 (18041863), 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 plantationsa history inseparably bound to that of their white owners.", This book traces the emergence and transformations of asbestos compensation to explore the wider issue of to what extent legal systems have converged in the era of globalization. Examining the mechanism by which asbestos compensation is delivered in Belgium, England, Italy and the United States, as well as the cultural forces and actors which contribute to its emergence and transformations, the book advances our understanding of how law operates within cultural norms, routines, and institutional relations of capitalist societies. With material gathered from 50 interviews and from primary and secondary sources, the author considers law as a cultural phenomenon, national styles of legal culture and the convergence and divergence of legal cultures, and law as a form of institutionalized power., 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.
LC Classification Number
F292.L6C58 2005

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