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The Realms of Oblivion : An Excavation of the Davies Manor Historic Site's Omitted Stories
Title
The Realms of Oblivion : An Excavation of the Davies Manor Historic Site's Omitted Stories / Andrew C. Ross.
ISBN
9780826506832
9780826506818
Publication
Nashville, Tennessee : Vanderbilt University Press, [2024]
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2024
Copyright Notice Date
©[2024]
Physical Description
1 online resource (280 pages).
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Description based on print version record.
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Summary
"The Realms of Oblivion is a micro history that uses a Tennessee slave-owning family's plantation, Davies Manor, as a window into slavery's local dimensions. Through tracing the Zachariah Davis family's migration to Tennessee from Virginia in the late eighteenth-century, the book weaves together a multi-generational family narrative that showcases how the family's wealth and 'success' as farmers was predicated upon the brutal exploitation of enslaved Black people"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE complete collection 2024.
Other formats
Online version: Ross, Andrew C. (Andrew Charles), 1982- Realms of oblivion. Nashville, Tennessee : Vanderbilt University Press, [2024]
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 10, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
"Omitted in Mass"
The Southside
God, Grace and child, and wonder
"Laborers in God's vineyard"
A "mother and grandmother of all the others"
"Blood on the fence, blood on the ground"
"Garden spot of the world"
Fathers and sons
Morning sun rising
The time for moderation has passed
"Goodbye pa"
"Disposed of as follows"
"His erring children"
"No-man's land"
"Honorable mention"
"Oh for a better state of things!!!"
"There is danger of much trouble"
"A relic of the old barbarism"
A "terrible state of frenzy"
Yearning for the "days of yore"
A "promising and pleasant little village"
"You can't tell all the good parts unless you bring in some of that bad part."
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Biographies.
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