The House on Diamond Hill
Tiya Miles
ISBN: | 9780807868126 |
Publisher: | The University of North Carolina Press |
Published: | 2 August, 2010 |
Format: | eBook |
Links | Australian Libraries (Trove) |
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The House on Diamond Hill
Tiya Miles
At the turn of the nineteenth century, James Vann, a Cherokee chief and entrepreneur, established Diamond Hill in Georgia, the most famous plantation in the southeastern Cherokee Nation. In this first full-length study to reconstruct the history of the plantation, Tiya Miles tells the story of Diamond Hill's founding, its flourishing, its takeover by white land-lottery winners on the eve of the Cherokee Removal, its decay, and ultimately its renovation in the 1950s. This moving multiracial histo
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