The Allstons of Chicora Wood

Scarborough, William Kauffman.

The Allstons of Chicora Wood wealth, honor, and gentility in the South Carolina lowcountry / [electronic resource] : William Kauffman Scarborough. - Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2011. - xii, 204 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The early years : West Point and return to Carolina -- Politics and marriage, 1828-1840 -- Constructing a plantation empire -- Church and school : Robert Allston's religious and educational contributions -- Politics and family : Senate president, the Nashville Convention, and Ben at West Point, 1840-1855 -- Governor and the approach of Armageddon, 1856-1861 -- War and defeat : the deaths of James L. Petigru and Robert F.W. Allston, 1861-1865 -- Postbellum travails : Adele's school, return to Chicora Wood, Bessie as woman rice planter -- Appendix A. The Allston and Petigru families -- Appendix B. The Allston plantations -- Appendix C. The public career of Robert F.W. Allston.


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Allston, Robert F. W. 1801-1864.
Alston family.


Plantation life--History--South Carolina--19th century.
Rice--Planting--History--South Carolina--19th century.


South Carolina--History--1775-1865.
Chicora Wood Plantation (S.C.)


Electronic books.

F273.A6 / S28 2011eb

975.7/03