The house on Diamond Hill [[electronic resource] ] : a Cherokee plantation story / / Tiya Miles
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| Autore: |
Miles Tiya <1970->
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| Titolo: |
The house on Diamond Hill [[electronic resource] ] : a Cherokee plantation story / / Tiya Miles
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| Pubblicazione: | Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2010 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (334 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 975.8/31 |
| Soggetto topico: | Cherokee Indians - Georgia - History |
| Plantations - Georgia - Spring Place - History | |
| Plantation life - Georgia - Spring Place | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 Site |
| Appendix 3: The Memoir of Margaret Ann Crutchfield (Peggy Scott Vann), Written by Anna Rosina GamboldNotes; Bibliography; Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | At 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 bou |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The house on Diamond Hill |
| ISBN: | 0-8078-6812-4 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910807946203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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