Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-196) and index
The early years : West Point and return to Carolina -- Politics and marriage, 1828-1840 -- Constructing a plantation empire -- Church and school : Robert Allston's religious and educational contributions -- Politics and family : Senate president, the Nashville Convention, and Ben at West Point, 1840-1855 -- Governor and the approach of Armageddon, 1856-1861 -- War and defeat : the deaths of James L. Petigru and Robert F.W. Allston, 1861-1865 -- Postbellum travails : Adele's school, return to Chicora Wood, Bessie as woman rice planter -- Appendix A. The Allston and Petigru families -- Appendix B. The Allston plantations -- Appendix C. The public career of Robert F.W. Allston
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Wealth, honor, and gentility in the South Carolina Lowcountry
Allston, Robert F. W., (Robert Francis Withers),1801-1864
Alston family
Plantation life-- South Carolina-- History-- 19th century
Rice-- Planting-- South Carolina-- History-- 19th century