{"product_id":"charting-the-plantation-landscape-from-laura-kilcer-vanhuss-9780807174791","title":"Charting the Plantation Landscape from Natchez to New Orleans","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCharting the Plantation Landscape from Natchez to New Orleans \u003c\/i\u003eexamines the hidden histories behind one of the nineteenth-century South's most famous maps: \u003ci\u003eNorman's Chart of the Lower Mississippi River, \u003c\/i\u003ecreated by surveyor Marie Adrien Persac before the Civil War and used for decades to guide the pilots of river vessels. Beyond its purely cartographic function, Persac's map depicted a world of accomplishment and prosperity, while concealing the enslaved and exploited laborers whose work powered the plantations Persac drew. In this collection, contributors from a variety of disciplines consider the histories that Persac's map omitted, exploring plantations not as sites of ease and plenty, but as complex legal, political, and medical landscapes. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEssays by Laura Ewen Blokker and Suzanne Turner consider the built and designed landscapes of plantations as they were structured by the logics and logistics of both slavery and the effort to present a fa ade of serenity and wealth. William Horne and Charles D. Chamberlain III delve into the political activity of formerly enslaved people and slaveholders respectively, while Christopher Willoughby explores the ways the plantation health system was defined by the agro-industrial environment. Jochen Wierich examines artistic depictions of plantations from the antebellum years through the twentieth century, and Christopher Morris uses the famed Uncle Sam Plantation to explain how plantations have been memorialized, remembered, and preserved. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith keen insight into the human cost of the idealized version of the agrarian South depicted in Persac's map, \u003ci\u003eCharting the Plantation Landscape \u003c\/i\u003eencourages us to see with new eyes and form new definitions of what constitutes the plantation landscape.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Laura Kilcer VanHuss\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0807174793\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807174791\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e LSU Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/05\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 7.70w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2022","brand":"Laura Kilcer VanHuss","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44048669966591,"sku":"9780807174791","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4e6f9cd9-25fc-4b20-b174-4fd205901d80.jpg?v=1684997130","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/charting-the-plantation-landscape-from-laura-kilcer-vanhuss-9780807174791","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}