Leisure, Plantations, and the Making of a New South

The Sporting Plantations of the South Carolina Lowcountry and Red Hills Region, 1900–1940

Julia Brock, Daniel Vivian

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2015
• eBook ISBN: 9780739195796
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: History

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.

Table of contents

• Cover-Page
• Half-Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1 “Plantation Life”: Varieties of Experience on the Remade Plantations of the South Carolina Lowcountry
• 2 Reviving and Restoring Southern Ruins: Reshaping Plantation Architecture and Landscapes in Georgetown County, South Carolina
• 3 Tending the New Old South: Cultivating a Plantation Image in the Georgia Lowcountry
• 4 “Rice Planters in their Own Right”: Northern Sportsmen and Waterfowl Management on the Santee River Plantations during the Baiting Era, 1905–1935
• 5 Knowledge of the Hunt: African American Guides in the South Carolina Lowcountry at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
• 6 A “Sporting Fraternity”: Northern Hunters and the Transformation of Southern Game Law in the Red Hills Region, 1880–1920
• 7 Life and Labor on the Southern Sporting Plantation: African American Tenants at Tall Timbers Plantation, 1920–1944
• Index
• About the Contributors