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The Allstons of Chicora Wood, wealth, honor, and gentility in the South Carolina lowcountry, William Kauffman Scarborough

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The Allstons of Chicora Wood, wealth, honor, and gentility in the South Carolina lowcountry, William Kauffman Scarborough
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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collective biography
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index present
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non fiction
Main title
The Allstons of Chicora Wood
Nature of contents
bibliography
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708357804
Responsibility statement
William Kauffman Scarborough
Sub title
wealth, honor, and gentility in the South Carolina lowcountry
Summary
"Chronicles the history of a South Carolina planter family from the opulent antebellum years through the trauma of the Civil War and postwar period"--Front flap of jacket
Table Of 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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