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Rice to ruin : the Jonathan Lucas family in South Carolina, 1783-1929
- Title
- Rice to ruin : the Jonathan Lucas family in South Carolina, 1783-1929 / Roy Williams III and Alexander Lucas Lofton.
- Author
- Williams, Roy, III
- Publication
- Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2018]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Lofton, Alexander Lucas, 1919-2011
- Description
- x, 427 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Shipwreck at Cape Romain -- First tidal rice mill -- First rice toll mill -- Mill builder, troubleshooter -- Jonathan Lucas II -- William Lucas -- Death of the patriarch -- Rice planter extraordinaire -- William Lucas's Charleston villa -- Ann Lucas Pearce Venning -- William Lucas's expanding empire -- Jonathan Lucas II and his family in England -- The children of Jonathan Lucas II -- Jonathan Lucas III and J.J. Lucas -- Thomas Bennett Lucas -- William Lucas's children -- Secession, before and after -- Benjamin Simons Lucas's sons, war and aftermath -- William Lucas's progeny at war, prelude -- Alexander Lucas into action -- Comrades in arms -- Beginning of the end and the fall -- Attempts to regain a lost world -- Engagement and courtship of Alexander Lucas -- Marriage, rice, and domestic concerns -- Robert Lucas in California -- Death of Charles Lucas -- The frustrations of Robert Lucas -- Settling a depleted estate -- Pitfalls of the Lucas genealogy -- An heiress without her fortune -- Robert's hopes for Janie -- Brothers across the continent -- Defeat after defeat -- A closing circle -- Contrasts within the family -- Death, depression, decline -- Into the abyss -- Heir disputes, final settlement.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-4897
- ISBN
- 9781611178340
- 1611178347
- LCCN
- 2017041481
- OCLC
- 1004206759
- Author
- Williams, Roy, III, author.
- Title
- Rice to ruin : the Jonathan Lucas family in South Carolina, 1783-1929 / Roy Williams III and Alexander Lucas Lofton.
- Publisher
- Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2018]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Lofton, Alexander Lucas, 1919-2011, author.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Williams, Roy, III. Rice to ruin. Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2018] 9781611178357 (DLC) 2017044529
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-4897