North by South: The Two Lives of Richard James Arnold

By Charles Hoffmann and Tess Hoffmann

In 1823, Richard James Arnold, descendant of a Quaker family involved in the movement to abolish slavery in Rhode Island, married Louisa Gindrat of Bryan County, Georgia, and acquired a plantation called White Hall--thirteen hundred acres of rice and cotton land and sixty-eight slaves. Over the next fifty years, Arnold led two distinct, if never entirely separate lives, building through successive Georgia winters a profitable southern "paradise" rooted in human bondage, then returning each spring to his business interests and extended family in Rhode Island.

Organized around a surviving plantation journal kept during two winters and one spring, North by South encompasses Arnold's career as a rice and cotton planter as it uncovers the increasingly difficult social and moral disguises that enabled him to move freely through two worlds.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082033443X
• ISBN13: 9780820334431
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"