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Twilight on the South Carolina Rice Fields : Letters of the Heyward Family, 1862-1871 by Edward Barnwell Heyward; Margaret Belser Hollis; Allen H Stokes; Shirley Bright Cook; Janet G Hudson; Nicholas G Meriwether; Peter A Coclanis; South Caroliniana Library.; Caroline McKissick Dial Publication Fund is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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A firsthand account of the Civil War and Reconstruction in the Old South rice kingdom from one of South Carolina's founding families The Civil War and Reconstruction eras decimated the rice-planting enterprise of the South, and no family experienced the effects of this economic upheaval quite as dramatically as the Heywards of South Carolina, a family synonymous with the wealth of the old rice kingdom in the Palmetto State. Twilight on the South Carolina Rice Fields collects the revealing wartime and postbellum letters and documents of Edward Barnwell "Barney" Heyward (1826–1871), a native of Beaufort District and grandson of Nathaniel Heyward, one of the most successful rice planters and largest slaveholders in the South. Barney Heyward was also the father of South Carolina governor Duncan Clinch Heyward, author of Seed from Madagascar, the definitive account of the rice kingdom's final stand a generation later. Edited by Margaret Belser Hollis and Allen H. Stokes, the Heyward family correspondence from this transformational period reveals the challenges faced by a once-successful industry and a once-opulent society in the throes of monumental change. During the war Barney Hey
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- Author
- Edward Barnwell Heyward; Margaret Belser Hollis; Allen H Stokes; Shirley Bright Cook; Janet G Hudson; Nicholas G Meriwether; Peter A Coclanis; South Caroliniana Library.; Caroline McKissick Dial Publication Fund
- Publisher
- S.C. : The University of South Carolina Press
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781611172300
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Biography, Memoir
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