Author: Joseph Asbury GrovesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 646
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The Alstons and Allstons of North and South Carolina
Author: Joseph Asbury GrovesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 646
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The South Carolina Rice Plantation as Revealed in the Papers of Robert F. W. Allston
Author: Robert Francis Withers AllstonPublisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9781570035692
Category : Enslaved persons
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
The reissue of The South Carolina Rice Plantation as Revealed in the Papers of Robert F.W. Allston makes available for a new generation of readers a firsthand look at one of South Carolinas most influential antebellum dynasties and the institutions of slavery and plantation agriculture upon which it was built. Often cited by historians, Robert F.W. Allstons letters, speeches, receipts, and ledger entries chronicle both the heyday of the rice industry and its precipitate crash during the Civil War. As Daniel C. Littlefield underscores in his introduction to the new edition, these papers are significant not only because of Allstons position at the apex of planter society but also because his views represented those of the rice planter elite.
The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine
Author: South Carolina Historical and Geneaological Magazine
Author: The South Carolina Historical Magazine
Author: Genealogies in the Library of Congress
Author: Marion J. KaminkowPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806316642
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 926
Book Description
Vol 1 905p Vol 2 961p.
Biographical History of North Carolina from Colonial Times to the Present
Author: Samuel A'Court AshePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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The Allstons of Chicora Wood
Author: William Kauffman ScarboroughPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807138452
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
William Kauffman Scarborough's absorbing biography, The Allstons of Chicora Wood, chronicles the history of a South Carolina planter family from the opulent antebellum years through the trauma of the Civil War and postwar period. Scarborough's examination of this extraordinarily enterprising family focuses on patriarch Robert R. F. W. Allston, his wife Adele Petigru Allston, and their daughter Elizabeth Allston Pringle Scarborough. Scarborough shows how Allston, in the four decades before the Civil War, converted a small patrimony into a Lowcountry agricultural empire of seven rice plantations, all the while earning an international reputation for the quality of his rice and his expertise. Scarborough also examines Allston's twenty-eight-year career in the state legislature and as governor from 1856 to 1858. Upon his death in 1864, Robert Allston's wife of thirty-two years, Adele, found herself at the head of the family. Scarborough traces how she successfully kept the family plantations afloat in the postwar years through a series of decisions that exhibited her astute business judgment and remarkable strength of character. In the next generation, one of the Allstons' five children followed a similar path. Elizabeth "Bessie" Allston took over management of the remaining family plantations upon the death of her husband and, in order to pay off the plantation mortgages, embarked on a highly successful literary career. Bessie authored two books, the first treating her experiences as a woman rice planter and the second describing her childhood before the war. A major contribution to southern history, The Allstons of Chicora Wood provides a fascinating look at a prominent southern family that survived the traumas of war and challenges of Reconstruction.
American and English genealogies in the Library of Congress. Preliminary catalogue. Compiled under the direction of the chief of the catalogue division
Author: American and English Genealogies in the Library of Congress
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 824
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