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Tombee : portrait of a cotton planter

Title
  1. Tombee : portrait of a cotton planter / Theodore Rosengarten ; with the journal of Thomas B. Chaplin (1822-1890) edited and annotated with the assistance of Susan W. Walker.
Published by
  1. New York : Morrow, ©1986.
Author
  1. Rosengarten, Theodore

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Additional authors
  1. Chaplin, Thomas Benjamin, 1822-1890.
  2. Walker, Susan W.
Description
  1. 750 pages : genealogical tables, maps; 24 cm
Summary
  1. Recounts the life of an enslaver and cotton planter from South Carolina, based in part upon his journal kept between 1845 and 1858.
Subject
  1. Chaplin, Thomas Benjamin, 1822-1890 > Diaries
  2. Chaplin, Thomas Benjamin, 1822-1890
  3. Chaplin
  4. Fripp
  5. Jenkins
  6. 1800-1899
  7. Enslavers > South Carolina > Saint Helena Island > Biography
  8. Slaveholders > South Carolina > Saint Helena Island > Biography
  9. Plantation life > South Carolina > Saint Helena Island > History > 19th century
  10. Cotton trade > South Carolina > Saint Helena Island > History > 19th century
  11. Enslaved persons
  12. Enslavement
  13. Enslaved Persons
  14. enslaved people
  15. Enslavers
  16. Cotton trade
  17. Plantation life
  18. Slaveholders
  19. Plantation life > South Carolina
  20. Cotton trade > South Carolina > Saint Helena Island > History > 19th century
  21. Plantation life > South Carolina > Saint Helena Island > History > 19th century
  22. Slaveholders > South Carolina > Saint Helena Island > Biography
  23. Saint Helena Island (S.C.) > Biography
  24. South Carolina > Saint Helena Island
  25. United States, South Carolina, Beaufort, St. Helena Island > History
  26. Saint Helena Island (S.C.) > Biography
Genre/Form
  1. Diary
  2. Biography
  3. diaries.
  4. collective biographies.
  5. Biographies
  6. Diaries
  7. History
  8. Diaries.
  9. Biographies.
  10. Journaux intimes.
Contents
  1. Tombee: Part I -- The drift of life -- Settings and backgrounds -- The chaplin family -- Agriculture -- Estates -- Social life -- Slavery -- The household -- Sickness and healing -- The journal -- Part II -- War -- 1864 -- The home front -- Redemption -- The Journal of Thomas B. Chaplin -- foreword -- 1845 -- 1846 -- 1847 -- 1848 -- 1849 -- 1850 -- 1851 -- 1852 -- 1853 -- 1854 -- 1855 -- 1856 -- 1857 -- 1858-61 -- 1886 -- Appendices -- Maps
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Note
  1. Maps on lining papers.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographies and index.