Description |
1 online resource (xv, 315 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Contents |
Housewarming: A Prologue; This Old House: An Introduction; Chapter 1. This Soul-House Built of Mud; Chapter 2. House-Raising; Chapter 3. The Big House/The Slave Quarter; Chapter 4. A House Divided; Chapter 5. House of Prayer; Chapter 6. In My Father's House Are Many Mansions; Bleak House: An Epilogue; Open House: A Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Appendix 1: Research Process, Methods, and Findings; Appendix 2: Black Slaves and Free Blacks on the Vann Plantation, Compiled by Julia Autry and William Chase Parker, Chief Vann House State Historic Site |
Summary |
At the turn of the nineteenth century, James Vann, a Cherokee chief and entrepreneur, established Diamond Hill, the most famous plantation in the southeastern Cherokee Nation. In this first full-length study to reconstruct the history of the plantation, Tiya Miles tells the story of Diamond Hill's founding, its flourishing, its takeover by white land-lottery winners on the eve of the Cherokee Removal, its decay, and its renovation in the 1950s. Vividly written and extensively researched, this history illuminates gender, class, and cross-racial relationships on the southern frontier |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed February 2, 2021) |
Subject |
Vann, James, 1765 or 1766-1809.
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SUBJECT |
Vann, James, 1765 or 1766-1809
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Vann, James, 1765 or 1766-1809 fast |
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Chief Vann House (Spring Place, Ga.)
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SUBJECT |
Chief Vann House (Spring Place, Ga.) fast |
Subject |
Cherokee Indians -- Georgia -- History
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Plantations -- Georgia -- Spring Place -- History
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Plantation life -- Georgia -- Spring Place
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HISTORY -- State & Local.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Native American Studies.
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Cherokee Indians
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Plantation life
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Plantations
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Gender & Ethnic Studies.
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Ethnic & Race Studies.
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Social Sciences.
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Georgia
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Georgia -- Spring Place
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2009052891 |
ISBN |
9780807868126 |
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0807868124 |
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9781469604343 |
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1469604345 |
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