South by Southwest: Planter Emigration and Identity in the Slave South

by James David Miller

Between 1815 and 1861 thousands of planters formed a unique emigrant group in American history. A slaveholding, landholding elite, southerners from Georgia and South Carolina uprooted themselves from their communities and headed for their society?s borderlands with a frequency and intensity unsurpassed by any comparable class. A phenomenon of such singularity and significance preoccupied many of the South?s leading citizens and generated a great deal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813921171
• ISBN13: 9780813921174
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.9" x 8.8"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher