The aging patriarch, though a fierce supporter of American liberty, was deeply troubled by the rebellion and its threat to established order. His diary, originally a record of plantation business, began to fill with angry stories of revolt in his own little kingdom.
Landon Carter, a Virginia planter patriarch, left behind one of the most revealing of all American diaries. In this biography, the author mines this remarkable document - and many other sources - to reconstruct Carter's interior world as it plunged into revolution. The aging pat…
Landon Carter was a Virginia planter who kept one of the most complete diaries written in the 18th century. Rhys Isaac brings the journal together as a thematic and narrative whole, reconstructing Landon's world and that of his children and slaves.
Landon Carter, a Virginia planter patriarch, left behind one of the most revealing of all American diaries. In this biography, the author mines this remarkable document - and many other sources - to reconstruct Carter's interior world as it plunged into revolution. The aging pat…
"In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Rhys Isaac describes and analyzes the dramatic confrontations - primarily religious and political - that transformed Virginia in the second half of the eighteenth century. Making use of the observational techniques of the cultural anthropolo…
In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Rhys Isaac describes and analyzes the dramatic confrontations-primarily religious and political-that transformed Virginia in the second half of the eighteenth century. Making use of the observational techniques of the cultural anthropologist,…