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Common blood, the life and times of an immigrant family in Charleston, South Carolina, Robert Alston Jones

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Common blood

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Robert Alston Jones

the life and times of an immigrant family in Charleston, South Carolina

"Robert Alston Jones draws a detailed account of his English and German forebears in Charleston from the early years of the nineteenth century to the turn of the twentieth. The intersection of their experiences as immigrants in the South's unique Lowcountry city with major political and cultural events occurring at the local, state, and national levels effected the acculturation and transformation of these European settlers into representative Charlestonians by the end of the century. Who were these individuals in search of new beginnings? How did their heritage affect their life in the South's most historic city? What did they leave behind in the common blood of the city's ethnic past? Jones's account reveals the course of these families' interconnected personal lives during more than eighty years of tumultuous times in Charleston."--Front flap of jacket

Introduction -- The families -- Early history before the move -- Early arrivals get established: 1810-1840 -- The followers in context: 1840-1860 -- Main lines, two of three: 1840-1860 -- The immigrant and the peculiar institution -- Secession and the war -- Soldiers -- The last to come -- Towards century's end -- Moncks Corner to Charleston