William Kauffman Scarborough's absorbing biography, The Allstons of Chicora Wood, chronicles the history of a South Carolina planter family from the opulent antebellum years through the trauma of the Civil War and postwar period. Scarborough's examination of this extraordinarily enterprising family focuses on patriarch Robert R. F. W. Allston, his wife Adele Petigru Allston, and their daughter Elizabeth Allston Pringle Scarborough.
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William Kauffman Scarborough's absorbing biography, The Allstons of Chicora Wood, chronicles the history of a South Carolina planter family from the opulent antebellum years through the trauma of the Civil War and postwar period. Scarborough's examination of this extraordinarily enterprising family focuses on patriarch Robert R. F. W. Allston, his wife Adele Petigru Allston, and their daughter Elizabeth Allston Pringle Scarborough.
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As New in As New jacket. This book chronicles the history of a South Carolina planter family from the antebellum years, when they transformed a small patrimony into a Lowcountry agricultural empire, through the trauma of the Civil War and the difficult postwar period; includes portraits and photographs (green paper-covered boards with silver lettering; green pictorial dust jacket with photo of Chicora Wood on the front; a bright, clean, tight copy)
