| Carolina Planters on the Alabama Frontier: The Spencer-Robeson-McKenzie Family Papers Contributor(s): Pattillo, Edward (Author) |
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ISBN: 160306138X ISBN-13: 9781603061384 Publisher: NewSouth Books OUR PRICE: $45.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: June 2011 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Slavery - History | United States - 19th Century |
| Dewey: 306.362 |
| LCCN: 2011042544 |
| Physical Information: 1.6" H x 7.62" W x 9.25" (2.80 lbs) 512 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
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| Publisher Description: Carolina Planters on the Alabama Frontier: The Spencer-Robeson-McKenzie Family collects the papers of Elihu Spencer, a fourth-generation New Englander, and his family and Southern descendants, to form a history of the American nation from the point of view of planters and those they held in slavery. The documents in this volume are accounts of a privileged world that was afflicted by constant loss and despair. The families lived as isolated, landed gentry in a society where medical treatment had hardly evolved since the Middle Ages. The papers together form a dramatic narrative of early Americans from the mid-eighteenth century to the harsh years after the Civil War. They created their new society with courage and imagination and tenacity, while never recognizing their own moral blind spot regarding the holding of human beings in slavery. It brought about the collapse of their world--poignantly expressed in these letters. |
Contributor Bio(s): Pattillo, Edward: - Edward McKenzie Pattillo was born near Tallassee, Alabama, where both sides of his family settled lands along the Tallapoosa River and in Montgomery soon after the Creek Nation was ceded to the United States. He was educated at Auburn University and the University of Alabama and at Columbia University, New York. He worked in the travel industry for many years and had been around the world five times by his thirtieth birthday. He later served as Curator of the Judicial Department of Alabama. He is an active historian, writing articles for such publications as Alabama Heritage, and he is currently at work on two more books. He is also an appraiser of personal property and a consultant for historic preservation groups in Montgomery. |