The house on Diamond Hill : a Cherokee plantation story
"Displaying pitch-perfect sensibility that weaves profound human empathy with piercing scholarly critique, Tiya Miles lays open the suffering: of all those who found themselves enmeshed in the world of Diamond Hill. At once monument and memorial, the Vann House is Cherokee, African, and American slavery writ large."--I AMi: s F. brooks, author of Captives and Cousins: Shivery, kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands
Print Book, English, ©2010
University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, ©2010
History
xv, 315 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
9780807834183, 9780807872673, 0807834181, 0807872679
495475390
Housewarming: a prologue
This old house: an introduction
The soul-house built of mud
House-raising
The big house/the slave quarter
A house divided
House of prayer
In my father's house are many mansions
Bleak house: an epilogue
Open house: a conclusion
Appendix 1: Research process, methods, and findings
Appendix 2: Black slaves and free blacks on the Vann plantation, compiled by Julia Autry and William Chase Parker, chief Vann house state historic site
Appendix 3: The memoir of Margaret Ann Crutchfield (Peggy Scott Vann), written by Anna Rosina Gambold