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Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic

Erskine Clarke

"Published some thirty years ago, Robert Manson Myers's Children of Pride: The True Story of Georgia and the Civil War won the National Book Award in history and went on to become a classic reference on America's slaveholding South. That book presented the letters of the prominent Presbyterian minister and plantation patriarch Charles Colcock Jones (1804-1863), whose family owned more than one hundred slaves. While extensive, these letters can provide only one part of the story of the Jones family plantations in coastal Georgia. In this remarkable new book, the religious historian Erskine Clarke completes the story, offering a narrative history of four generations of the plantations' inhabitants, white and black." "Encompassing the years 1805 to 1869, Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic describes the simultaneous but vastly different experiences of slave and slave owner.

HistoryAmerican History · medium confidenceAmerican History81 signalsLlm Classifier: American History -> American HistoryKeyword Classifier: American History -> American HistoryKeyword Classifier: Race & Ethnicity -> Race & EthnicityAmerican Civil WarSlavery & EmancipationBlack History & CultureFood, Agriculture & Land

Award History

1 wins · 1 total

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  1. 01 Central figures

    • Charles Colcock Jones72%
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    • Robert Manson Myers36%

  2. 02 Central places

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    • coastal Georgia55%
    • Georgia42%

  3. 03 Suggested argument

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    Dwelling Place argues that, across 1805 to 1869 in the Jones family plantations of coastal Georgia, enslaved people and slave owners experienced the same period in fundamentally different ways.

    Model confidence 58%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    65 / 100 academic

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Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 74%.