Archibald Rutledge

God's Children (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This 1940s memoir provides a glimpse into the life and thoughts of a South Carolina plantation owner in the post-Civil War, pre-Civil Rights era. In 1937, after decades in the North, Archibald Rutledge returned to what he described as the "hyacinth days and camellia nights" of his native Carolina Lowcountry to restore his ancestral home, Hampton Plantation, which had been in his family since 1730. Originally published in 1947, these pages describe, in intimate and fascinating detail, the plantation life he found upon his return. In the simple, lyrical language of the first poet laureate of South Carolina, Rutledge portrays the black men and women, descendants of slaves, who labored alongside him in the marshes of the Santee, the stories they shared, and his interactions with them. God's Children serves as a vivid snapshot of day-to-day activity on a plantation in the American South in the first half of the twentieth century, and of a lifestyle that was ever so slowly disappearing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781625842886
• Artikelnr.: 39421072

Autorenporträt

Archibald Rutledge was raised on Hampton Plantation near McClellanville, SC. Growing up in the Lowcountry of South Carolina, Rutledge was early on immersed in the wildlife and woods of the region. While attending Union College in New York, he was editor of the school newspaper and class poet. For the next 37 years, he was the head of the English Department at Mercersburg Academy in Pennsylvania. Living in Pennsylvania, Rutledge was widely published; in 1934 this prompted the Governor of SC to appoint him Poet Laureate. Upon retiring, he returned to Hampton Plantation to restore the buildings and reclaim the grounds from the wilderness that had largely claimed them. He spent the remainder of his life on Hampton Plantation, the denizens of which are the focus of God's Children. Rutledge died in 1973.