God's Children

This 1940s memoir provides a glimpse into the life and thoughts of a South Carolina plantation owner in the post-Civil War, pre-Civil Rights era.

In 1937, after decades in the North, Archibald Rutledge returned to what he described as the "hyacinth days and camellia nights" of his native Carolina Lowcountry to restore his ancestral home, Hampton Plantation, which had been in his family since 1730.

Originally published in 1947, these pages describe, in intimate and fascinating detail, the ...