The Allstons of Chicora Wood: Wealth, Honor, and Gentility in the South Carolina Lowcountry

by William Kauffman Scarborough

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 focuses on patriarch Robert R. F. W. Allston, his wife Adele Petigru Allston, and their daughter Elizabeth Allston Pringle Scarborough.
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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807138436
• ISBN13: 9780807138434
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.8"