Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations: From the Revolution Through the Civil War. Selections from the University of Virginia Library. Virginia...
- ISBN-10
- 0890937842
- ISBN-13
- 9780890937846
- Category
- Plantation life
- Pages
- 86
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1986
Description
Correspondence and records of a number of individuals and plantations in the Tidewater and Piedmont regions of Virginia in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries.
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