Marx E. Cohen and Clear Springs: Rethinking a Jewish Plantation Owner
Marx E. Cohen and Clear Springs: Rethinking a Jewish Plantation Owner
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2013-06-05
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Clare, Seth Reid
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This essay is a historiographic milestone. It is the first attempt to analyze an antebellum Jewish plantation owner both biographically and in terms of how he managed his plantation on a day-to-day basis. While many historians have supposed that Marx E. Cohen of Charleston was a conventional planter who used Clear Springs to cultivate rice, this essay breaks new ground, arguing that Cohen used Clear Springs as a pleasant county house, rather than a means to an agrarian income.
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Southern Jewry,
Lowcountry,
Rice,
Rice Planting,
Plantation Life,
Slavery,
Task System,
Antebellum Charleston,
Emancipation,
Civil War,
South Carolina,
Jewish Slave Owners