Over 50 famous watercolors are superbly reproduced in color. The text explores Smith's prominent role in Charleston and its history.

Alice Ravenel Huger Smith (1876-1958), a leader of the Charleston Renaissance, immortalized the beauty and history of the Carolina Lowcountry and helped propel

A Woman Rice Planter offers insights into a broad spectrum of Southern life after the Civil War. As an account of a woman's struggle for survival and dignity in

Through eighty-nine color plates and six thematic essays, this collection examines depictions of plantations, plantation views, and related slave imagery in the

"The essays tell how these and other individuals faced the tensions and contradictions of their time and place. While some traced their lineage back to the city