A New Plantation World: Sporting Estates in the South Carolina Lowcountry, 1900–1940 (Cambridge Studies on the American South)
Cambridge University Press, 3/1/2018
EAN 9781108416900, ISBN10: 110841690X
Hardcover, 362 pages, 23.5 x 16.3 x 2.5 cm
Language: English
In the era between the world wars, wealthy sportsmen and sportswomen created more than seventy large estates in the coastal region of South Carolina. By retaining select features from earlier periods and adding new buildings and landscapes, wealthy sporting enthusiasts created a new type of plantation. In the process, they changed the meaning of the word 'plantation', with profound implications for historical memory of slavery and contemporary views of the South. A New Plantation World is the first critical investigation of these 'sporting plantations'. By examining the process that remade former sites of slave labor into places of leisure, Daniel J. Vivian explores the changing symbolism of plantations in Jim Crow-era America.
Introduction
1. Discovering the lowcountry
Northern sportsmen in paradise, 1880–1915
2. Creating plantations for sport and leisure
estate-making in the Carolina lowcountry, 1915–1940
3. New lowcountry, new plantations
4. Creating Mulberry Plantation, 1915–1935
the Colonial Revival as an estate-making idiom
5. Medway plantation
the patina of age
6. Representing a new plantation world
7. Plantation life
varieties of experience on the remade plantations of the lowcountry
Epilogue.