Leisure, Plantations, and the Making of a New South

The Sporting Plantations of the South Carolina Lowcountry and Red Hills Region, 1900–1940

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

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Leisure, Plantations, and the Making of New South investigates the social, architectural, and environmental history of sporting plantations in the South Carolina lowcountry and the Red Hills region of southeast Georgia and northern Florida. Although plantations figure prominently in histories of the post-emancipation South, historians have paid little attention to the redevelopment of plantations for non-agricultural use. By examining the two largest concentrations of sporting plantations on the south Atlantic coast, this collection explores questions about historical memory of slavery, race relations, material culture, and the environment during the first half of the twentieth century.

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Utgivningsdatum2017-04-12
Mått149 x 231 x 17 mm
Vikt340 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieNew Studies in Southern History
Antal sidor228
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780739195802

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Introduction: Leisure and the Transformation of Southern Plantations: The Second Yankee Invasion in the Red Hills and the South Carolina Lowcountry, Julia Brock and Daniel VivianChapter 1: “Plantation Life”: Varieties of Experience on the Remade Plantations of the South Carolina Lowcountry, Daniel VivianChapter 2: Reviving and Restoring Southern Ruins: Reshaping Plantation Architecture and Landscapes in Georgetown County, South Carolina, Jennifer BetsworthChapter 3: Tending the New Old South: Cultivating a Plantation Image in the Georgia Lowcountry, Drew SwansonChapter 4: “Rice Planters in their Own Right”: Northern Sportsmen and Waterfowl Management on the Santee River Plantations during the Baiting Era, 1905–1935, Matthew Lockhart Chapter 5: Knowledge of the Hunt: African American Guides in the South Carolina Lowcountry at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, Hayden Ross SmithChapter 6: A “Sporting Fraternity”: Northern Hunters and the Transformation of Southern Game Law in the Red Hills Region, 1

This collection of seven essays raises important questions about the post-reconstruction and 20th-century South . . . The collective contribution is to highlight the development of northern-owned hunting estates in coastal Carolina and Georgia and in the red hills of southwestern Georgia and the northern Florida panhandle. The estates were at once leisure retreats and illustrations of the early 20th-century approaches to conservation (hunting and game laws often ran counter to local economic needs) or interracial relations (work-based relationships on the estates reinforced the position of African Americans in the world of southern tenancy even as the estate owners were dependent on tenants for expertise as guides). The essays are strongest in giving detail to the patterns of estate development (architecture, purchasing, or the estates as tourist destinations) and in outlining the social or hunting activities of the owners, residents, and hunters. While the essays also demonstrate the influence of estate owners in the politics of the 20th-century South, there are potentially rewarding lines of inquiry into politics that are left unexplored. . . .Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.