Plantations of the Low Country
by Agnes LeLand Baldwin, William P. Baldwin
Photograhy by N. Jane Iseley
Book Summary
Open the doors to some of the South's most beautiful homes and glimpse a vanished world of prosperous plantations and provincial aristocracy. Arranged around the river systems that supported plantation life, the book surveys Lowcountry architecture and the history of the people who lived here.
About the Authors
Agnes LeLand Baldwin is a native South Carolina and graduated from Winthrop College in 1940 with an A.B. degree in History. She has maintained a lifelong interest in South Carolina history and has completed extensive research on the early grants to Low Country tidelands. She is the author of Early Settlers of South Carolina, 1670–1700, and was a principal researcher for the South Carolina Tri Centennial celebration in 1970.
William P. Baldwin is a lifelong resident of the Carolina Lowcountry. He and his wife Lil have two grown sons, two wonderful daughters-in-law, and two nearly perfect grandchildren. Over the years Baldwin has worked as a shrimper, a building contractor, and most importantly a writer. He is the author of the well-received novel The Hard to Catch Mercy and has collaborated with N. Jane Iseley on several projects, including the original Plantations of the Low Country: South Carolina 1697–1865. He is co-author of Mrs. Whaley and Her Charleston Garden and Sister Peterkin’s Heaven Is a Beautiful Place.
About the Photographer
N. Jane Iseley is a graduate of Radford College and the New York Institute of Photography. As a staff photographer for Colonial Williamsburg for nine years, she was the photographic author of six books. As a freelance photographer she has 23 more books to her credit, including Charleston, Charleston Entertains, Plantations of the Low Country: South Carolina 1697–1865, and The Charleston Interior. She is the president of Legacy Publications. Her home is on a family farm in Burlington, North Carolina.
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