North by South
The Two Lives of Richard James Arnold
In 1823, Richard James Arnold, descendant of a Quaker family involved in the movement to abolish slavery in Rhode Island, married Louisa Gindrat of Bryan County, Georgia, and acquired a plantation called White Hall--thirteen hundred acres of rice and cotton land and sixty-eight slaves. Over the next fifty years, Arnold led two distinct, if never entirely separate lives, building through successive Georgia winters a profitable southern paradise rooted in human bondage, then returning each spring to his business interests and extended family in Rhode Island.Organized around a surviving plantation journal kept during two winters and one spring,…
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Weitere Autoren: Hoffmann, Tess
- ISBN: 978-0-8203-3443-1
- EAN: 9780820334431
- Produktnummer: 5056506
- Verlag: University of Georgia Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 352 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D2.0 cm 508 g
- Gewicht: 508
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
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Charles Hoffmann and Tess Hoffmann are coauthors of Brotherly Love: Murder and the Politics of Prejudice in Nineteenth-Century Rhode Island.
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