A world turned upside down : the Palmers of South Santee, 1818-1881

Author(s)

• Towles, Louis P. (Louis Palmer)

Bibliographic Information

A world turned upside down : the Palmers of South Santee, 1818-1881

edited by Louis P. Towles

University of South Carolina Press, c1996

Note

Maps on lining papers

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Through letters and journal entries rich in detail, this text follows the trials of the 19th-century Palmer family who dominated the southern banks of South Carolina's Santee River. The volume offers insights into plantation life; education; religion; and slave/master relations.

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Details

• NCID: BA34399174
• ISBN:
  • 1570030472
• LCCN: 95041779
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Columbia
• Pages/Volumes: xi, 1067 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : F273
  • DC20 : 975.7/041/0922
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : South Carolina -- History -- 1775-1865 -- Biography
  • LCSH : Reconstruction -- South Carolina
  • LCSH : Palmer family -- Correspondence