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A World Turned Upside Down - Palmers of South Santee, 1818-81 (Hardcover, New)
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A World Turned Upside Down - Palmers of South Santee, 1818-81 (Hardcover, New)
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A remarkable chronicle that features one family's thirty-year
plummet from prominence to poverty, A World Turned Upside Down
follows the trials of the nineteenth-century planters that once
dominated the southern banks of South Carolina's Santee River.
Voluminous, literate, and rich in detail, the Palmer family letters
and journal entries serve as a sustained narrative of the economic
pressures and wartime tragedies that shattered the South's planter
aristocracy. The Palmer papers offer insight into every aspect of
daily plantation life: education, religion, household management,
planting, slave-master relations, and social life. While the
antebellum writings reveal the reinforcement of rigid attitudes
about social, economic, political, and religious concerns, the
wartime correspondence depicts the deterioration of those attitudes
and of the Palmers' lifestyle. The letters tell of women sewing
clothing for themselves and for soldiers, sending provisions to the
troops, and "making do" with meager resources. The papers also
describe problems facing the family patriarch - shortages, inflated
Confederate currency, directives from the Confederate Congress on
what to plant, and requisitioned labor - as he managed the
plantations without the help of his sons and nephews. In addition
to overwhelming material concerns, the Palmers chronicle the
emotional impact of wartime casualties and of God's seeming
indifference to the South and, more specifically, to the planters.
At the close of the Civil War, the Palmers had no cash, horses,
mules, seed, or human labor but plenty of debt, and their letters
tell of unprofitable years of contract labor, experiences with
sharecropping, and holdings that nevermatched prewar productivity.
Of particular interest, they discuss the desertion and loss of
slaves, the difficulties of adjusting to Reconstruction, the search
for nonagricultural employment, and changes in the family's values,
goals, and social circles as the Palmers dealt with the collapse of
their way of life.
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