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Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic.(Book review)
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The Journal of African American History
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March 22, 2008
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Erskine Clarke, Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2005. Pp. xiii, 601. Cloth $40.00. Paper $20.00.
Erskine Clarke's Bancroft prizewinning work, Dwelling Place, recounts the history of plantation owner Charles Colcock Jones's family and that of Lizzy Jones, the "matriarch of one of the most influential and widely connected families of the Gullah-speaking slave community." Hailing from and always rooted either physically or emotionally in the Georgia Low Country of Liberty County, these families represent a microcosm of the intricately woven patterns of black and white life in the antebellum South. Clarke brings to life these ...
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