| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.2

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Book Review

Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic. By Erskine Clarke. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. xvi, 601 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-300-10867-2.)

It is doubtful that any nineteenth-century southern family has been subjected to more intense scholarly scrutiny than the Jones family of Liberty County, Georgia. More than thirty years ago, the Yale University Press published Robert Manson Myers's The Children of Pride (1972), a massive edition of twelve hundred letters written by the family and friends of the Reverend Charles Colcock Jones during the tumultuous years from 1854 to 1868. Now that same press has published a fascinating narrative history of four generations of the Jones family by Erskine Clarke, professor of American religious history at Columbia Theological Seminary. This time, however, the scope is much broader in both time and personae. Not only does Dwelling Place cover a span of more than sixty years, from 1805 to 1869, but the author has chosen to focus equally on the black and the white families that resided on the Jones plantations. The result is a masterpiece of literary integration, marked by indefatigable research and brilliantly descriptive writing.

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