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The True Image: Gravestone Art and the Culture of Scotch Irish Settlers in the Pennsylvania and Carolina Backcountry (Richard Hampton Jenrette Series in Architecture and the Decorative Arts)

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A thousand unique gravestones cluster around old Presbyterian churches within the piedmont of the 2 Carolinas and in central Pennsylvania. Most are the vulnerable legacy of three generations of the Bigham circle of relatives, Scotch Irish stonecutters whose workshop near Charlotte created the earliest surviving art of British settlers within the region. In The True Image, Daniel Patterson documents the craftsmanship of this group and the current appearance of the stones. In 200 of his photographs, he records these stones for future generations and compares their iconography and inscriptions with the ones of other early monuments in the USA, Northern Ireland, and Scotland.
Combining his reading of the stones with historical records, previous scholarship, and wealthy oral lore, Patterson throws new light at the complex culture and experience of the Scotch Irish in The us. In so doing, he explores the bright and the dark sides of how they coped with challenges such as backwoods conditions, religious upheavals, war, political conflicts, slavery, and land speculation. He shows that headstones, resting quietly in old graveyards, can reveal fresh insights into the nature and history of an influential immigrant group.

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