On nineteenth-century South Carolina: above all, Chronicles of Chicora Wood by Elizabeth Waities Allston Pringle and A Woman Rice Planter by the same author. Also, Within The Plantation Household by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese; The Plantation Mistress by Catherine Clinton; Intellectual Life in Ante-Bellum Charleston, Down by the Riverside by Charles Joyner; Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs; A Bondwoman’s Narrative, Slave Narratives by Henry Louis Gates; and The Black Border by Ambrose E. Gonzales.
On the Civil War: The Civil War by Shelby Foote; A Rebel War Clerk’s Diary by John B. Jones; Battery Wagner by Timothy Eugene Bradshaw, Jr.; Gate of Hell by Stephen R. Wise; Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor; The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara; and Robert E. Lee by Douglas Southall Freeman.
About the Author
DAVID PAYNE lives in North Carolina, and is the author of four previous novels: Confessions of a Taoist on Wall Street, which won the prestigious Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award; Early from the Dance; Ruin Creek; and Gravesend Light. He welcomes comments from readers, and is available to speak with your book club. He can be reached at [email protected].
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ALSO BY DAVID PAYNE
Confessions of a Taoist on Wall Street
Early from the Dance
Ruin Creek
Gravesend Light
Copyright
Grateful acknowledgment is made to reprint excerpts from Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Jung. Reprinted by permission of Random House. Copyright 1961, 1962, 1963.
This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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1As told by Col. C. C. Jones, in The Black Border by Ambrose E. Gonzales, A Firebird Press Book / Pelican Publishing Company, Gretna, LA, 1998.
1Adapted from Fitzhugh’s 1850 essay, “Sociology for the South,” by George Fitzhugh, A. Moms, Publisher, Richmond, VA, 1854.
