The House on Diamond Hill : A Cherokee Plantation Story /

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At the turn of the nineteenth century, James Vann, a Cherokee chief and entrepreneur, established Diamond Hill, the most famous plantation in the southeastern Cherokee Nation. In this first full-length study to reconstruct the history of the plantation, Tiya Miles tells the story of Diamond Hill...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Miles, Tiya, 1970-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Vann, James, > 1765 or 1766-1809.
Chief Vann House (Spring Place, Ga.)
Social Sciences.
Ethnic & Race Studies.
Gender & Ethnic Studies.
Plantations.
Plantation life.
Cherokee Indians.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Native American Studies.
HISTORY > State & Local.
Cherokee (Indiens) > Georgie (État) > Histoire.
Plantation life > Georgia > Spring Place.
Plantations > Georgia > Spring Place > History.
Cherokee Indians > Georgia > History.
Georgia > Spring Place.
Georgia.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Housewarming: A Prologue; This Old House: An Introduction; Chapter 1. This Soul-House Built of Mud; Chapter 2. House-Raising; Chapter 3. The Big House/The Slave Quarter; Chapter 4. A House Divided; Chapter 5. House of Prayer; Chapter 6. In My Father's House Are Many Mansions; Bleak House: An Epilogue; Open House: A Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Appendix 1: Research Process, Methods, and Findings; Appendix 2: Black Slaves and Free Blacks on the Vann Plantation, Compiled by Julia Autry and William Chase Parker, Chief Vann House State Historic Site.

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