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<p>Published some thirty years ago, Robert Manson Myersâs <i>Children of Pride: The True Story of Georgia and the Civil War</i> won the National Book Award in history and went on to become a classic reference on Americaâs 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 plantationsâ inhabitants, white <i>and</i> black.<br>Encompassing the years 1805 to 1869, <i>Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic</i> 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 reco
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Clarke, Erskine
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780300108675
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Biography, Historical Fiction
- Rating
- 4.3 / 5 (111 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14