A New Plantation World Sporting Estates in the South Carolina Lowcountry, 1900–1940 Cambridge Studies on the American South Series

In the era between the world wars, wealthy sportsmen and sportswomen created more than seventy large estates in the coastal region of South Carolina. By retaining select features from earlier periods and adding new buildings and landscapes, wealthy sporting enthusiasts created a new type of plantation. In the process, they changed the meaning of the word 'plantation', with profound implications for historical memory of slavery and contemporary views of the South. A New Plantation World is the first critical investigation of these 'sporting plantations'. By examining the process that remade former sites of slave labor into places of leisure, Daniel J. Vivian explores the changing symbolism of plantations in Jim Crow-era America.

Introduction; 1. Discovering the lowcountry: Northern sportsmen in paradise, 1880–1915; 2. Creating plantations for sport and leisure: estate-making in the Carolina lowcountry, 1915–1940; 3. New lowcountry, new plantations; 4. Creating Mulberry Plantation, 1915–1935: the Colonial Revival as an estate-making idiom; 5. Medway plantation: the patina of age; 6. Representing a new plantation world; 7. Plantation life: varieties of experience on the remade plantations of the lowcountry; Epilogue.

Daniel J. Vivian is an Associate Professor in the Department of Historic Preservation at the University of Kentucky.