{"product_id":"beyond-the-fields-slavery-at-middleton-place-9780615207230","title":"Beyond the Fields: Slavery at Middleton Place","description":"\u003cp\u003eLocated in Charleston along the Ashley River  Middleton Place is an eighteenth-century plantation that has survived revolution  Civil War  and earthquake to become a well-preserved museum and a National Historic Landmark. It was the home of four important generations of Middletons  beginning with Henry Middleton  president of the First Continental Congress; Arthur  a signer of the Declaration of Independence; Henry  Governor of South Carolina and an American Minister to Russia; and Williams  a signer of the Ordinance of Secession. In 2005 the Middleton Place Foundation opened its permanent exhibit  Beyond the Fields: Slavery at Middleton Place. Representing more than three decades of research by staff and volunteers  the exhibit tells the story of Africans and African Americans associated with the Middleton family and their plantations. The eponymous companion volume to this exhibit vividly illustrates the realities of plantation slavery at Middleton Place through insightful text by authors Barbara Doyle  Mary Edna Sullivan  and Tracey Todd  and through more than eighty color and black-and-white images. The book  like its parent exhibit  commemorates and documents the lives  families  and contributions of some seven generations of Middleton slaves. By identifying more than 2 800 individuals owned by the Middleton family from 1738 to 1865 and by connecting many of them with their extended family units  Beyond the Fields solidifies their story in a tangible historical context. This pioneering work on the part of the Middleton Place Foundation makes it possible to present the once overlooked history of these slaves and freedmen from the early eighteenth century through emancipation and into the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647575154741,"sku":"ByrdShop_0615207235","price":37.81,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780615207230.jpg?v=1781693674","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/beyond-the-fields-slavery-at-middleton-place-9780615207230","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}