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The Allstons of Chicora Wood wealth, honor, and gentility in the South Carolina lowcountry
Title
The Allstons of Chicora Wood [electronic resource] : wealth, honor, and gentility in the South Carolina lowcountry / William Kauffman Scarborough.
ISBN
0807138452
0807138460
9780807138458
9780807138465
0807138436 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807138444 (mobi)
9780807138434 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807138441 (mobi)
Published
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2011. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2013)
Physical Description
1 online resource (xii, 204 p. :) ill. ;
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Description based on print version record.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - UPCC 2011 Complete Supplement.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2011 US Regional Studies, South Supplement.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 08, 2013
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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