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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780807169094
- Book Title
- Two Charlestonians at War : The Civil War Odysseys of a Lowcountry Aristocrat and a Black Abolitionist
- Publisher
- LSU Press
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Genre
- Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
- Topic
- United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Military / United States, General, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
- Item Weight
- 22.7 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 344 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
LSU Press
ISBN-10
0807169099
ISBN-13
9780807169094
eBay Product ID (ePID)
240380514
Product Key Features
Book Title
Two Charlestonians at War : The Civil War Odysseys of a Lowcountry Aristocrat and a Black Abolitionist
Number of Pages
344 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2018
Topic
United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Military / United States, General, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
22.7 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2017-049364
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Masterfully researched and beautifully written, Barbara Bellows' Two Charlestonians at War should be required reading for anyone studying the history of the American South. . . . From the description of a brief encounter, Bellows has developed a powerful narrative of the Civil War--a war that did not end with Lee's surrender at Appomattox., Chance united two men just outside on Morris Island--Thomas Pinckney, a Confederate prisoner, and Joseph Barquet, an African American soldier and one of his federal captors. Void of pretense and with their uniforms negating any need of the old racial etiquette, the two men talked as native Charlestonians with parallel lives. Barbara Bellows has constructed a well-researched and beautifully written dual narrative., A Faulknerian saga of the lives of two South Carolina men: a blueblood planter blessed with privileges bestowed by slavery who volunteered in the Confederate army, but succumbed to defeat and ruin; and a free biracial man who fled north to destroy bondage as both an abolitionist and a soldier in the famed 54th Massachusetts regiment, only to find the stain of slavery indelible. A compelling and sobering history graced by energetic research and vivid writing.
Dewey Decimal
973.7/457
Synopsis
Tracing the intersecting lives of a Confederate plantation owner and a free black Union soldier, Barbara L. Bellows' Two Charlestonians at War offers a poignant allegory of the fraught, interdependent relationship between wartime enemies in the Civil War South. Through the eyes of these very different soldiers, Bellows brings a remarkable, new perspective to the oft-told saga of the Civil War. Recounted in alternating chapters, the lives of Charleston natives born a mile a part, Captain Thomas Pinckney and Sergeant Joseph Humphries Barquet, illuminate one another's motives for joining the war as well as the experiences that shaped their worldviews. Pinckney, a rice planter and scion of one of America's founding families, joined the Confederacy in hope of reclaiming an idealized agrarian past; and Barquet, a free man of color and brick mason, fought with the Union to claim his rights as an American citizen. Their circumstances set the two men on seemingly divergent paths that nonetheless crossed on the embattled coast of South Carolina. Born free in 1823, Barquet grew up among Charleston's tight-knit community of the "colored elite." During his twenties, he joined the northward exodus of free blacks leaving the city and began his nomadic career as a tireless campaigner for black rights and abolition. In 1863, at age forty, he enlisted in the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry--the renowned "Glory" regiment of northern black men. His varied challenges and struggles, including his later frustrated attempts to play a role in postwar Republican politics in Illinois, provide a panoramic view of the free black experience in nineteenth-century America. In contrast to the questing Barquet, Thomas Pinckney remained deeply connected to the rice fields and maritime forests of South Carolina. He greeted the arrival of war by establishing a home guard to protect his family's Santee River plantations that would later integrate into the 4th South Carolina Cavalry. After the war, Pinckney distanced himself from the racist violence of Reconstruction politics and focused on the daunting task of restoring his ruined plantations with newly freed laborers. The two Charlestonians' chance encounter on Morris Island, where in 1864 Sergeant Barquet stood guard over the captured Captain Pinckney, inspired Bellows' compelling narrative. Her extensive research adds rich detail to our knowledge of the dynamics between whites and free blacks during this tumultuous era. Two Charlestonians at War gives readers an intimate depiction of the ideological distance that might separate American citizens even as their shared history unites them.
LC Classification Number
E467.B45 2018
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