Leisure, Plantations, and the Making of a New South - The Sporting Plantations of the South Carolina Lowcountry and Red

This book 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. It explores questions about environmental change, recreation, race relations, and historical memory of slavery.

List of contents

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 Vivian
Chapter 1: "Plantation Life": Varieties of Experience on the Remade Plantations of the South Carolina Lowcountry, Daniel Vivian
Chapter 2: Reviving and Restoring Southern Ruins: Reshaping Plantation Architecture and Landscapes in Georgetown County, South Carolina, Jennifer Betsworth
Chapter 3: Tending the New Old South: Cultivating a Plantation Image in the Georgia Lowcountry, Drew Swanson
Chapter 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 Smith
Chapter 6: A "Sporting Fraternity": Northern Hunters and the Transformation of Southern Game Law in the Red Hills Region, 1880-1920, Julia Brock
Chapter 7: Life and Labor on the Southern Sporting Plantation: African American Tenants at Tall Timbers Plantation, 1920-1944, Robin Bauer Kilgo 

About the author

Daniel Vivian is assistant professor and director of the Public History Program at the University of Louisville.

Julia Brock is assistant professor and co-director of the Center for Public History at the University of West Georgia.

Summary

This book 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. It explores questions about environmental change, recreation, race relations, and historical memory of slavery.

Product details

• Authors: Julia Vivian Brock, Daniel Brock Vivian
• Assisted by: Julia Brock (Editor), Brock Julia (Editor), Daniel Vivian (Editor), Vivian Daniel (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2017
• EAN: 9780739195802
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-9580-2
• No. of pages: 228
• Series: New Studies in Southern History; New Studies in Southern Histor; New Studies in Southern Histor; New Studies in Southern History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; 20th Century, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, History of the Americas, Central Southern States, US South