{"id":1359,"date":"2014-08-15T20:06:25","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T20:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/?page_id=1359"},"modified":"2014-08-23T04:38:53","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T04:38:53","slug":"a-map-of-time-and-blood","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/?page_id=1359","title":{"rendered":"A Map of Time and Blood"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"su-heading su-heading-style-default su-heading-align-center\" id=\"\" style=\"font-size:13px;margin-bottom:20px\"><div class=\"su-heading-inner\">A Map of Time and Blood: An Introduction to the Skinner Family Papers 1826-1850<\/div><\/div>\n<p><strong>The antebellum letters<\/strong> in the Skinner Family Papers \u2013 housed in the University of North Carolina\u2019s Southern Historical Collection in Chapel Hill \u2013 were written primarily by Tristrim Lowther Skinner; his sister, Penelope; his father, Joseph Blount Skinner; and his sweetheart, Eliza Fisk Harwood. These eloquent documents reflect a complex and densely layered world teeming with life, vibrant in their particularity. Marked by great depth and continuity, the letters reveal much about the background of a terrible war, the subtleties of courtship and coming-of-age rituals, and the season-to-season labors of the \u201clean decade.\u201d Here is an Old South that challenges contemporary ideas of belles and debutante balls, defies the myth of the languid planter basking in sun-drenched abundance, and redefines a genteel society within the context of a devastating economic collapse. Here is an Old South practicing restraint and attempting to live within its means.<\/p>\n<p>Mary Maillard\u2019s extensively researched monograph is an essential guide for readers of the coming-of-age letters of Penelope, Tristrim, and Eliza Harwood Skinner, as well as a general introduction to antebellum southern culture in North Carolina and Virginia. Like other planter correspondence, almost nothing is mentioned in the Skinner Family Papers about the institution of slavery \u2013 although several slave lists survive. As Maillard explains, the<span style=\"color: #008080;\"> <a title=\"Slavery\" href=\"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/?page_id=535\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Skinners\u2019 attitudes towards slavery<\/span><\/a><\/span> were complex, contradictory, and conflicted, particularly in that the family had evolved in three generations from antislavery Quakers to slaveholding planter elites. Connecting 18th century documents in the Skinner papers with those in Swem Library at the College of William and Mary, Maillard also reconstructs longstanding kinship links between Edenton, North Carolina, and Williamsburg, spanning nearly a hundred years.<\/p>\n<p>Read a <span style=\"color: #008080;\"><a title=\"Sample Chapter from A Map of Time and Blood: An Introduction to the Skinner Family Papers 1826-1850\" href=\"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/?page_id=451\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">sample<\/span><\/a><\/span> or purchase the ebook from <a title=\"A Map of Time and Blood\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B00MRG8E3K\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Kindle<\/span><\/a>, <span style=\"color: #008080;\"><a title=\"A Map of Time and Blood\" href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/a-map-of-time-and-blood\/id909793007?mt=11\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">iBooks<\/span><\/a><\/span>, or <a title=\"A Map of Time and Blood\" href=\"http:\/\/store.kobobooks.com\/en-CA\/ebook\/a-map-of-time-and-blood\"><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\">Kobo<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"A Map of Time and Blood\" href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/a-map-of-time-and-blood\/id909793007?mt=11\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1303 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Map-of-Time-and-Blood-1826-1850-Cover-New-Page.jpeg\" alt=\"Map of Time and Blood 1826-1850 Cover - New Page\" width=\"2550\" height=\"3300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Map-of-Time-and-Blood-1826-1850-Cover-New-Page.jpeg 2550w, https:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Map-of-Time-and-Blood-1826-1850-Cover-New-Page-231x300.jpeg 231w, https:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Map-of-Time-and-Blood-1826-1850-Cover-New-Page-791x1024.jpeg 791w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2550px) 100vw, 2550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The antebellum letters in the Skinner Family Papers \u2013 housed in the University of North Carolina\u2019s Southern Historical Collection in Chapel Hill \u2013 were written primarily by Tristrim Lowther Skinner; his sister, Penelope; his father, Joseph Blount Skinner; and his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/?page_id=1359\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1367,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"spay_email":""},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P4M6TH-lV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1359"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1504,"href":"https:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1359\/revisions\/1504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}