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Chargement... Mary's World: Love, War, and Family Ties in Nineteenth-century Charlestonpar Richard N. Côté
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Born to affluence and opportunity in the South's Golden Age, Mary Motte Alston Pringle (1803-1884) represented the epitome of Southern white womanhood. Her husband was a wealthy rice planter who owned four plantations and 337 slaves. Her thirteen children included two Harvard scholars, seven world travelers, a U.S. Navy war hero, six Confederate soldiers, one possible Union collaborator, a Confederate firebrand trapped in the North, an expatriate gourmet bon vivant, and two California pioneers. How Mary Pringle, her family, and slaves lived before the Civil War, clung desperately to life in the eye of the maelstrom, and coped -- or failed to cope -- with its bewildering aftermath is the story of this book. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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 Google Books — Chargement...GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)975.7915History and Geography North America Southeastern U.S. South CarolinaClassification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne: (3.9)
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Even though is wasn't what I expected, it is an interesting history of a wealthy southern family. My only problem was that I became mired down when Cote took side trips into the cousins, aunts, uncles, etc. who all seemed to have similar names. There is a lot of background and history of Charleston, South Carolina, and the low country rice planters. (