02756nam 2200481 a 450 991078533550332120230725025526.00-8078-6812-4(CKB)2670000000058463(EBL)605924(OCoLC)676696387(MiAaPQ)EBC605924(Au-PeEL)EBL605924(CaPaEBR)ebr10425415(CaONFJC)MIL929604(EXLCZ)99267000000005846320091223d2010 ub 0engurcn|||||||||The house on Diamond Hill[electronic resource] a Cherokee plantation story /Tiya MilesChapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20101 online resource (334 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8078-3418-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Housewarming: A Prologue; This Old House: An Introduction; Chapter 1. This Soul-House Built of Mud; Chapter 2. House-Raising; Chapter 3. The Big House/The Slave Quarter; Chapter 4. A House Divided; Chapter 5. House of Prayer; Chapter 6. In My Father's House Are Many Mansions; Bleak House: An Epilogue; Open House: A Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Appendix 1: Research Process, Methods, and Findings; Appendix 2: Black Slaves and Free Blacks on the Vann Plantation, Compiled by Julia Autry and William Chase Parker, Chief Vann House State Historic SiteAppendix 3: The Memoir of Margaret Ann Crutchfield (Peggy Scott Vann), Written by Anna Rosina GamboldNotes; Bibliography; IndexAt the turn of the nineteenth century, James Vann, a Cherokee chief and entrepreneur, established Diamond Hill in Georgia, the most famous plantation in the southeastern Cherokee Nation. In this first full-length study to reconstruct the history of the plantation, Tiya Miles tells the story of Diamond Hill's founding, its flourishing, its takeover by white land-lottery winners on the eve of the Cherokee Removal, its decay, and ultimately its renovation in the 1950's. This moving multiracial history sheds light on the various cultural communities that interacted within the plantation bouCherokee IndiansGeorgiaHistoryPlantationsGeorgiaSpring PlaceHistoryPlantation lifeGeorgiaSpring PlaceCherokee IndiansHistory.PlantationsHistory.Plantation life975.8/31Miles Tiya1970-1498969MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910785335503321The house on Diamond Hill3758968UNINA