William Kauffman Scarborough: 2 books
The Allstons of Chicora Wood
Wealth, Honor, and Gentility in the South Carolina Lowcountry
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
William Kauffman Scarborough's absorbing biography, The Allstons of Chicora Wood, chronicles the history of a South Carolina planter family from the opulent antebellum years through the trauma of the Civil War and postwar period. Scarborough's examination of this extraordinarily enterprising family...
Masters of the Big House
Elite Slaveholders of the Mid-Nineteenth-Century South
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
William Kauffman Scarborough has produced a work of incomparable scope and depth, offering the challenge to see afresh one of the most powerful groups in American history -- the wealthiest southern planters who owned 250 or more slaves in the census years of 1850 and 1860. The identification and tabulation...