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Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter

Theodore Rosengarten

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#1276 of 3,809 books · #505 in History

Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction (1986) and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography (1986).

In this brilliant account of life in the antebellum South, Rosengarten brings readers a masterful piece of history told from two perspectives. Tombee is the biography of Thomas Chaplin, the unlucky slave master and proprietor of Tombee Plantation. The book also contains the personal journal Chaplin kept, providing a relentless study of the horror of plantation slavery.

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Publisher
William Morrow
ISBN-13
9780070538214
Genre
History
Topics
Antebellum SouthPlantation slaveryCotton planting

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