Lessons from the Big House: One Family's Passage Through the History of the South

by Frye Gaillard

Beginning in the South Carolina Low Country with his Huguenot ancestors who fled religious persecution in Europe, journalist-historian Frye Gaillard traces his family through the troubled, oppressive history of the South. Gaillard, who came of age during the civil rights years, shares the painful legacy of a family sometimes on the wrong side of that history. He writes of Capt. Peter Gaillard, who fought in the Revolutionary War (on both sides), and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1588384551
• ISBN13: 9781588384553
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: NewSouth Books
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.9" x 7.9"