The Realms of Oblivion : An Excavation of the Davies Manor Historic Site's Omitted Stories

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The Realms of Oblivion : An Excavation of the Davies Manor Historic Site's Omitted Stories

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  • 言語 ENG
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While contemporary studies of slavery have illuminated many aspects of the United States' long history of racism and its role in the wider Atlantic world, they have devoted less attention to the institutional and local dimensions of enslavement. The Realms of Oblivion is a micro history that uses a Tennessee slave-owning family's plantation, Davies Manor, as a window into slavery's local dimensions and the damning legacy of bondage long after emancipation. Through tracing the Zachariah Davis family's migration to Tennessee from Virginia in the late eighteenth century, the book weaves together an engrossing, multi‑generational family narrative that showcases how the family's wealth and "success" as farmers were predicated upon the brutal exploitation of enslaved Black people.

Written in an engaging and critical style, The Realms of Oblivion is grounded in a rich source-base, ranging from legal records, to personal files of the Davies family, to oral histories. The book uses this archive to create a "bottom-up" history that not only reveals a critical chapter of Tennessee and Southern history, but also offers a valuable approach to United States history more generally.

Contents

Preface
Author's Note
Introduction: "Omitted in Mass"

Part One: 1700-1842
Chapter 1: The Southside
Chapter 2: God, Grace and Child, and Wonder
Chapter 3: "Laborers in God's Vineyard"
Chapter 4: A "Mother and Grandmother of All the Others"
Chapter 5: "Blood on the Fence, Blood on the Ground"

Part Two: 1843-1860
Chapter 6: "Garden Spot of the World"
Chapter 7: Fathers and Sons
Chapter 8: Morning Sun Rising
Chapter 9: The Time for Moderation Has Passed

Part Three: 1861-1865
Chapter 10: "Goodbye Pa"
Chapter 11: "Disposed of as Follows"
Chapter 12: "His Erring Children"
Chapter 13: "No-Man's Land"
Chapter 14: "Honorable Mention"
Chapter 15: "Oh for a Better State of Things!!!"

Part Four: 1865-1893
Chapter 16: "There is Danger of Much Trouble"
Chapter 17: "A Relic of the Old Barbarism"
Chapter 18: A "Terrible State of Frenzy"
Chapter 19: Yearning for the "Days of Yore"
Chapter 20: A "Promising and Pleasant Little Village"

Epilogue: "You Can't Tell All the Good Parts Unless You Bring in Some of That Bad Part"

Davies Family Tree and Cast of Characters
Bibliography