Description: Charting the Plantation Landscape from Natchez to New Orleans, Hardcover by VanHuss, Laura Kilcer (EDT), ISBN 0807174793, ISBN-13 9780807174791, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "'Charting the plantation landscape from Natchez to New Orleans' examines the hidden histories behind one of the nineteenth-century South's most famous maps: Norman's chart of the Lower Mississippi River, created by surveyor Marie Adrien Persac before the Civil War and used for decades to guide the pilots of river vessels. Beyond its purely cartographic function, Persac's map depicted a world of accomplishment, prosperity, and wealth, while concealing the enslaved and exploited laborers whose work powered the plantations Persac drew. In this collection, contributors from a variety of disciplines consider the histories that Persac's map omitted, exploring plantations not as sites of ease and plenty, but as complex legal, political, and medical by Laura Ewen Blokker and Suzanne Turner consider the built and designed landscapes of plantations as they were structured by the logics and logistics of both slavery and the effort to present a faðcade of serenity and wealth. William Horne and Charles D. Chamberlain III delve into the political activity of former slaves and slaveholders respectively, while Christopher Willoughby explores the ways the plantation health system was defined by the agro-industrial environment. Jochen Wierich examines artistic depictions of plantations from the antebellum years through the twentieth century, and Christopher Morris uses the famed Uncle Sam Plantation to explain how plantations have been memorialized, remembered, and preserved. With keen insight into thehuman cost of the idealized version of the agrarian South depicted in Persac's map, 'Charting the plantation landscape' encourages us to see with new eyes and form new definitions of what constitutes the plantation landscape"--
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Book Title: Charting the Plantation Landscape from Natchez to New Orleans
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Charting the Plantation Landscape from Natchez to New Orleans
Publisher: LSU
Subject: Landscape, Historical Geography, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
Publication Year: 2021
Item Height: 1.1 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 18.3 Oz
Subject Area: Architecture, History
Author: Laura Kilcer Vanhuss
Item Length: 9.1 in
Series: Reading the American Landscape Ser.
Item Width: 6.3 in
Format: Hardcover
