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Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter

Theodore Rosengarten

In this brilliant account of life in the antebellum South, Rosengarten brings readers a masterful piece of history told from two perspectives. Tombee is the biography of Thomas Chaplin, the unlucky slave master and proprietor of Tombee Plantation. The book also contains the personal journal Chaplin kept, providing a relentless study of the horror of plantation slavery. Maps and charts.

BiographyBiography · medium confidenceBiography81 signalsLlm Classifier: Biography -> BiographyKeyword Classifier: American History -> American HistoryAward Category: National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography -> BiographyBusiness Biography

Award History

0 wins · 2 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
National Book Award for NonfictionMajor1986FinalistSecondary source
National Book Critics Circle Award for BiographyMajor1986FinalistSecondary source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    • Thomas Chaplin90%

  2. 02 Central places

    • Tombee Plantation80%

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    No argument inferred with sufficient confidence.

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    35 / 100 academic

    Serious trade

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 78%.