| Seed from Madagascar Contributor(s): Heyward, Duncan Clinch (Author), Coclanis, Peter A. (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0872498948 ISBN-13: 9780872498945 Publisher: University of South Carolina Press OUR PRICE: $18.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1993 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - General - History | African American |
| Dewey: 917.570 |
| LCCN: 92021426 |
| Physical Information: 0.83" H x 6.02" W x 8.98" (1.11 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Geographic Orientation - South Carolina - Cultural Region - South Atlantic |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Long before there were cobblestone streets along the Charleston battery, there was rice and there were slaves--the twin pillars upon which colonial Carolina wealth was built. But by the Civil War both began to crumble, along with the planter aristocracy they supported. Seed from Madagascar chronicles the linked tragedies of the prominent Heyward family and South Carolina's rice industry while underscoring the integral role African Americans played in the fortunes of the planter class and the precious crop. As much about race as about rice, Duncan Clinch Heyward's account describes the master-slave relationship, the planting and marketing of rice, and the changes wrought by the Civil War. Peter Coclanis's vivid introduction to this Southern Classics edition places Heyward's chronicle in its historical and cultural context, making Seed from Madagascar as important today as when it first appeared in the 1930s. |
Contributor Bio(s): Coclanis, Peter a.: - Peter A. Coclanis is the Albert Ray Newsome Distinguished Professor for the Study of the South and director of the Global Research Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of numerous works in U.S. and international economic history, including The Shadow of a Dream: Economic Life and Death in the South Carolina Low Country, 1670-1920 and The South, the Nation, and the World: Perspectives on Southern Economic Development (with David L. Carlton).Heyward, Duncan Clinch: - Duncan Clinch Heyward (1864-1943) served as governor of South Carolina from 1903 to 1907. |