The Allstons of Chicora Wood : Wealth, Honor, and Gentility in the South Carolina Lowcountry /

William Kauffman Scarboroughs 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. Scarboroughs examination of this extraordinarily enterprising family fo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Scarborough, William Kauffman
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Alston family.
Allston, Robert F. W. > (Robert Francis Withers), > 1801-1864.
Alston (Famille)
Rice > Planting.
Plantation life.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
Vie dans les plantations > Caroline du Sud > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Riz > Plantation > Caroline du Sud > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Rice > Planting > South Carolina > History > 19th century.
Plantation life > South Carolina > History > 19th century.
South Carolina > Chicora Wood Plantation.
South Carolina.
Caroline du Sud > Histoire > 1775-1865.
Chicora Wood Plantation (S.C.)
South Carolina > History > 1775-1865.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The early years : West Point and return to Carolina
  • Politics and marriage, 1828-1840
  • Constructing a plantation empire
  • Church and school : Robert Allston's religious and educational contributions
  • Politics and family : Senate president, the Nashville Convention, and Ben at West Point, 1840-1855
  • Governor and the approach of Armageddon, 1856-1861
  • War and defeat : the deaths of James L. Petigru and Robert F.W. Allston, 1861-1865
  • Postbellum travails : Adele's school, return to Chicora Wood, Bessie as woman rice planter
  • Appendix A. The Allston and Petigru families
  • Appendix B. The Allston plantations
  • Appendix C. The public career of Robert F.W. Allston.

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