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Charlene M.Boyer Lewis

Ladies and Gentlemen on Display

Planter Society at the Virginia Springs, 1790-1860

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Each summer between 1790 and 1860, hundreds and eventually thousands of southern men and women left the diseases and boredom of their plantation homes and journeyed to the healthful and entertaining Virginia Springs. While some came in search of a cure, most traveled over the mountains to enjoy the fashionable society and participate in an array of social activities.At the springs visitors, as well as their slaves, interacted with one another and engaged in behavior quite different from the picture presented by most historians. In the leisurely and pleasure-filled environment of the springs, plantation society's hierarchies became at once mor… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-8139-2079-5
  • EAN: 9780813920795
  • Produktnummer: 1426946
  • Verlag: University of Virginia Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
  • Seitenangabe: 320 S.
  • Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm 608 g
  • Abbildungen: 22 b&w illustrations
  • Gewicht: 608
  • Sonstiges: Undergraduate

Über den Autor


Charlene M. Boyer Lewis is Assistant Professor of History at Widener University.

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