Rice to ruin : the Jonathan Lucas family in South Carolina, 1783-1929 /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Columbia :
University of South Carolina Press,
[2018]
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Table of 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.