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March 16, 2006
in African American Studies, American History, History

Dwelling Place Wins Bancroft Prize

March 16, 2006
in African American Studies, American History, History

It was announced this week that Erskine Clarke’s Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic, a narrative history of four generations of a plantation’s inhabitants–white and black–in Liberty County, Georgia, from 1805 to 1869, is among this year’s winners of the prestigious Bancroft Prize. The Bancroft Prize, established in 1948, is awarded

February 10, 2006
in African American Studies, American History, History

Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic

February 10, 2006
in African American Studies, American History, History

“[A] beautifully conceived and penetrating book…Clarke has produced one of the finest studies of American slavery ever written.” The glowing review, courtesy of Steven Hahn in the latest issue of The New Republic, is of Erskine Clarke’s new book, Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic, a narrative history of the intimately