{"product_id":"the-house-on-diamond-hill-a-cherokee-plantation-story","title":"The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt the turn of the nineteenth century  James Vann  a Cherokee chief and entrepreneur  established Diamond Hill in Georgia  the most famous plantation in the southeastern Cherokee Nation. In this first full-length study to reconstruct the history of the plantation  Tiya Miles tells the story of Diamond Hills founding  its flourishing  its takeover by white land-lottery winners on the eve of the Cherokee Removal  its decay  and ultimately its renovation in the 1950s.  This moving multiracial history sheds light on the various cultural communities that interacted within the plantation boundaries  from elite Cherokee slaveholders to Cherokee subsistence farmers  from black slaves of various ethnic backgrounds to free blacks from the North and South  from German-speaking Moravian missionaries to white southern skilled laborers. Moreover  the book includes rich portraits of the women of these various communities. Vividly written and extensively researched  this history illuminates gender  class  and cross-racial relationships on the southern frontier.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44985982681141,"sku":"ByrdShop_0807834181","price":53.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780807834183.jpg?v=1770880295","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-house-on-diamond-hill-a-cherokee-plantation-story","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}