{"id":721,"date":"2014-07-08T16:09:23","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T16:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/?page_id=721"},"modified":"2015-05-19T18:11:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T18:11:00","slug":"albemarle-son","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/?page_id=721","title":{"rendered":"Albemarle Son"},"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\">Albemarle Son<\/div><\/div>\n<p>In these vividly written letters we follow Tristrim Lowther Skinner of Edenton, North Carolina, from the age of thirteen in boarding schools in North Carolina and Philadelphia, through two years at the College of William and Mary where he studied under the brightest minds of the South, to his practical education in the \u201clean decade\u201d of the 1840s when he learned the \u201cmysterious art of farming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Guided by his father throughout \u2013 conducting business in the North and assuming state legislative responsibilities befitting his class \u2013 Tristrim evolved into a well-versed, honorable, Southern planter. He ignored his father\u2019s attempts to steer him in the direction of several wealthy marriage prospects and \u2013 at the age of twenty-eight \u2013 married for love. These eloquent documents provide an unusually detailed portrait of a future Confederate officer.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #1c6149;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: large;\">A useful and well-prepared addition to the scholarly research on pre\u2013Civil War Southern planters. \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 19px; line-height: 28px;\">Kirkus<\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"line-height: 27px;\"><i>Reviews.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Read a <a title=\"Tristrim Lowther Skinner to Joseph Blount Skinner, January 16, 1840\" href=\"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/?page_id=454\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">sample letter<\/span><\/a> or purchase the ebook from <a title=\"Kindle Albemarle Son\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Albemarle-Son-Letters-Tristrim-1833-1849-ebook\/dp\/B00L60W9RK\/ref=sr_1_2?s=digital-text&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1404837378&amp;sr=1-2\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Kindle<\/span><\/a> <a title=\"iBooks Albemarle Son\" href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/albemarle-son\/id891989373?ls=1&amp;mt=11\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">iBooks<\/span><\/a> or <a title=\"Kobo Albemarle Son\" href=\"http:\/\/store.kobobooks.com\/en-CA\/ebook\/albemarle-son\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Kobo<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\" Albemarle Son iBooks\" href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/albemarle-son\/id891989373?mt=11\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-158 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Albemarle-on-background-New-Page.jpeg\" alt=\"Albemarle on background - New Page\" width=\"1760\" height=\"1360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Albemarle-on-background-New-Page.jpeg 1760w, https:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Albemarle-on-background-New-Page-300x231.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Albemarle-on-background-New-Page-1024x791.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1760px) 100vw, 1760px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In these vividly written letters we follow Tristrim Lowther Skinner of Edenton, North Carolina, from the age of thirteen in boarding schools in North Carolina and Philadelphia, through two years at the College of William and Mary where he studied &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/?page_id=721\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":355,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"spay_email":""},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P4M6TH-bD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/721"}],"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=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3399,"href":"https:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/721\/revisions\/3399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}