A New Plantation World: Sporting Estates in the South Carolina Lowcountry, 1900-1940

Name/Title

A New Plantation World: Sporting Estates in the South Carolina Lowcountry, 1900-1940

Entry/Object ID

2018.006.1

Description

An investigation of the sporting plantations created by wealthy sportsmen and sportswomen in the era between the world wars. Examines the process that remade former sites of slave labor into places of leisure and the changing symbolism of plantations in Jim Crow-era America. Contents: Discovering the lowcountry: Northern sportsmen in paradise, 1880–1915 -- Creating plantations for sport and leisure: estate-making in the Carolina lowcountry, 1915–1940 -- New lowcountry, new plantations -- Creating Mulberry Plantation, 1915–1935: the Colonial Revival as an estate-making idiom -- Medway plantation: the patina of age -- Representing a new plantation world -- Plantation life: varieties of experience on the remade plantations of the lowcountry xiv, 351 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Collection

Historic Charleston Foundation Library

Acquisition

Accession

2018.006

Source or Donor

Daniel Vivian

Acquisition Method

Other

Credit Line

Courtesy of Daniel J. Vivian

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Plantations--South Carolina--History--20th century, Plantation life--South Carolina--History--20th century, Mulberry Plantation (Berkeley County, S.C.), Medway (S.C.)

Book Details

Author

Vivian, Daniel J.

Series

Cambridge Studies on the American South

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Place Published

Location

Cambridge (UK)

Date Published

2018

Call No.

F270 .V58 2018

ISBN

9781108416900

Location

Location

Room

Granville Room

Building

Missroon Library

Category

Permanent

Date

February 7, 2023

Provenance

Notes

Provided to HCF as thanks for providing images of Mulberry Plantation for the book.

General Notes

Note

Notes: By Daniel J. Vivian. Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Create Date

March 21, 2018

Updated By

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Update Date

February 16, 2023