The Croom family and Goodwood plantation
Subtitle: land, litigation, and southern lives
By: William Warren Rogers and Erica R. Clark.
Contributors: Clark, Erica R.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
Subjects: Crump family.; Crump family -- Trials, litigation, etc.; Plantation life -- Florida -- Tallahassee Region -- History -- 19th century.; Frontier and pioneer life -- Florida -- Tallahassee Region -- History -- 19th century.; Goodwood Plantation (Fla.); Tallahassee Region (Fla.) -- Biography.; Tallahassee Region (Fla.) -- Social life and customs.; Tallahassee Region (Fla.) -- Race relations.
Description: One of the most elegant mansions in Florida, Goodwood was built over a century ago and stands today as one of Tallahassee's grandest historical monuments. It was once the center of a thriving plantation founded by the Croom family of North Carolina, who in the 1820s sought to revive their fortunes in the newly opened Florida territory. William Warren Rogers and Erica R.

Clark tell the story of this family and its legacy, shedding new light on many aspects of antebellum family life, plantation management, and race relations. They describe how brothers Hardy and Bryan Croom developed Goodwood Plantation to over four thousand acres with nearly two hundred slaves before Hardy and his family were killed in a shipwreck, and how a twenty-year lawsuit, complicated by questions of survivorship and residency, denied Bryan control of the estate.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-274) and index.