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North by South: The Two Lives of Richard James Arnold

North by South: The Two Lives of Richard James Arnold

Paperback

Historical FiguresCivil War Period (1850-1877)General Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 082033443X
ISBN13: 9780820334431
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: Sep 1 2009
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.12
Height: 0.78 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In 1823, Richard James Arnold, descendant of a Quaker family involved in the movement to abolish slavery in Rhode Island, married Louisa Gindrat of Bryan County, Georgia, and acquired a plantation called White Hall--thirteen hundred acres of rice and cotton land and sixty-eight slaves. Over the next fifty years, Arnold led two distinct, if never entirely separate lives, building through successive Georgia winters a profitable southern paradise rooted in human bondage, then returning each spring to his business interests and extended family in Rhode Island.

Organized around a surviving plantation journal kept during two winters and one spring, North by South encompasses Arnold's career as a rice and cotton planter as it uncovers the increasingly difficult social and moral disguises that enabled him to move freely through two worlds.

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