The Allstons of Chicora Wood
Subtitle: wealth, honor, and gentility in the South Carolina lowcountry
By: William Kauffman Scarborough
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780807138434; 9780807138465; 9780807138441; 9780807138458
Subjects: Planting; History; Rice; Plantation life
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The early years : West Point and return to Carolina; title: Politics and marriage, 1828-1840; title: Constructing a plantation empire; title: Church and school : Robert Allston's religious and educational contributions; title: Politics and family : Senate president, the Nashville Convention, and Ben at West Point, 1840-1855; title: Governor and the approach of Armageddon, 1856-1861; title: War and defeat : the deaths of James L. Petigru and Robert F.W. Allston, 1861-1865; title: Postbellum travails : Adele's school, return to Chicora Wood, Bessie as woman rice planter; title: Appendix A. The Allston and Petigru families; title: Appendix B. The Allston plantations; title: Appendix C. The public career of Robert F.W. Allston.