Dwelling Place
Subtitle: A Plantation Epic
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: April 28, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 624
ISBN-13: 9780300122565
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Slavery & emancipation; Social history; c 1800 to c 1900; History: American; History; Biography / Autobiography; Georgia; Historical - U.S; United States - 19th Century; History / United States / 19th Century
First sentence: Early on a March morning in 1805, as the first hints of dawn touched the Sea Islands and the marshlands south of Savannah, Old Jupiter rose, went out of his cabin, and with a blast from his conch-shell horn announced a new day.