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Dwelling Place : a Plantation Epic by Erskine Clarke, 1941- is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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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 (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,

Who reads Dwelling Place : a Plantation Epic?

Author

Erskine Clarke, 1941-

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780300133288

Category

history

Subjects

History, Sociology, Biography

Rating

4.3 / 5 (111 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14