North by South The Two Lives of Richard James Arnold
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
01.09.2009
Verlag
University of Georgia PressSeitenzahl
352
Maße (L/B/H)
22.9/15.2/2 cm
Gewicht
508 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-8203-3443-1
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, "North by South" encompasses Arnold's career as a rice and cotton planter as it uncovers the increasingly difficult social and moral disguises that enabled him to move freely through two worlds.
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