The Allstons of Chicora Wood wealth, honor, and gentility in the South Carolina lowcountry /

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Prif Awdur: Scarborough, William Kauffman
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Fformat: Electronig eLyfr
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Cyhoeddwyd: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2011.
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Tabl Cynhwysion:
  • 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.