Beschreibung:
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. By examining the two largest collections of sporting plantations in the New South, it explores questions about environmental change, recreation, race relations, and historical memory of slavery during the first half of the twentieth century.
Leisure, Plantations, and the Making of New South 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. Although plantations figure prominently in histories of the post-emancipation South, historians have paid little attention to the redevelopment of plantations for non-agricultural use. By examining the two largest concentrations of sporting plantations on the south Atlantic coast, this collection explores questions about historical memory of slavery, race relations, material culture, and the environment during the first half of the twentieth century.
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