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Tombee : portrait of a cotton planter

Title
Tombee : portrait of a cotton planter / Theodore Rosengarten ; with the journal of Thomas B. Chaplin (1822-1890) edited and annotated with the assistance of Susan W. Walker.
Author
Rosengarten, Theodore
Publication
New York : Morrow, ©1986.

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Book/TextUse in library F277.B3 C487 1986Off-site

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Additional Authors
  • Chaplin, Thomas Benjamin, 1822-1890.
  • Walker, Susan W.
Description
750 pages : genealogical tables, maps; 24 cm
Summary
Recounts the life of an enslaver and cotton planter from South Carolina, based in part upon his journal kept between 1845 and 1858.
Subject
  • Chaplin, Thomas Benjamin, 1822-1890 > Diaries
  • Chaplin, Thomas Benjamin, 1822-1890
  • Chaplin
  • Fripp
  • Jenkins
  • 1800-1899
  • Enslavers > South Carolina > Saint Helena Island > Biography
  • Slaveholders > South Carolina > Saint Helena Island > Biography
  • Plantation life > South Carolina > Saint Helena Island > History > 19th century
  • Cotton trade > South Carolina > Saint Helena Island > History > 19th century
  • Enslaved persons
  • Enslavement
  • Enslaved Persons
  • enslaved people
  • Enslavers
  • Cotton trade
  • Plantation life
  • Slaveholders
  • Plantation life > South Carolina
  • Cotton trade > South Carolina > Saint Helena Island > History > 19th century
  • Plantation life > South Carolina > Saint Helena Island > History > 19th century
  • Slaveholders > South Carolina > Saint Helena Island > Biography
  • Saint Helena Island (S.C.) > Biography
  • South Carolina > Saint Helena Island
  • United States, South Carolina, Beaufort, St. Helena Island > History
  • Saint Helena Island (S.C.) > Biography
Genre/Form
  • Diary
  • Biography
  • diaries.
  • collective biographies.
  • Biographies
  • Diaries
  • History
  • Diaries.
  • Biographies.
  • Journaux intimes.
Note
  • Maps on lining papers.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies and index.
Contents
Tombee: Part I -- The drift of life -- Settings and backgrounds -- The chaplin family -- Agriculture -- Estates -- Social life -- Slavery -- The household -- Sickness and healing -- The journal -- Part II -- War -- 1864 -- The home front -- Redemption -- The Journal of Thomas B. Chaplin -- foreword -- 1845 -- 1846 -- 1847 -- 1848 -- 1849 -- 1850 -- 1851 -- 1852 -- 1853 -- 1854 -- 1855 -- 1856 -- 1857 -- 1858-61 -- 1886 -- Appendices -- Maps
ISBN
  • 0688054129
  • 9780688054120
LCCN
86000716
OCLC
  • ocm13093570
  • 13093570
  • SCSB-638056
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library