Books of Plantation life
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Crafting the Overseer's Image
By William E. WiethoffThe first book-length study of the overseer in four decades, Wiethoff's study bridges historical, legal, and rhetorical scholarship to present a provocative investigation into the multifaceted roles of this oft-forgotten figure in ...
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Masters Without Slaves: Southern Planters in the Civil War and Reconstruction
By James L. RoarkWinner of the Allan Nevins Award of the Society of American Historians.
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Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations: From the Revolution Through the Civil War. Selections from the University of Virginia Library. Virginia...
0341 Edmund Berkeley, Jr., Norborne Berkeley, Mrs. Frances Reid, and Major William Noland, 1794. 126 frames. 0405 Major William Noland, Personal Letters, 1 794-1 830. 22 frames. 0427 Berkeley Family, Miscellaneous Receipts, 1 794-1 832.
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Violet Storm: Carolina phoenix
By Anne Marshall Huston, James Alvin HustonSouth Carolinian Violet Storm struggles to hold her family together and manage her plantation during Reconstruction.
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Tobacco Culture: The Mentality of the Great Tidewater Planters on the Eve of Revolution
By T. H. BreenT. H. Breen's study of this tobacco culture focuses on how elite planters gave meaning to existence.
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Slave Emancipation in Cuba: The Transition to Free Labor, 1860-1899
By Rebecca Jarvis Scott, Charles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Law Rebecca J ScottThe Description for this book, Slave Emancipation in Cuba: The Transition to Free Labor, 1860-1899, will be forthcoming.
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View from the Fazenda: A Tale of the Brazilian Heartlands
By Ellen Bromfield GeldView from the Fazenda is distilled from fifty years of living in Brazil, weaving daily life on the farm into her quest to understand a nation.
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Tobacco Culture: The Mentality of the Great Tidewater Planters on the Eve of Revolution
By T. H. BreenT. H. Breen's study of this tobacco culture focuses on how elite planters gave meaning to existence.
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A Divided Heart: Letters of Sally Baxter Hampton, 1853-1862
By Sally Baxter HamptonInsightful correspondence from a New Yorker among the Hamptons on the eve of war
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Yellow Crocus
By Laila IbrahimThis deeply moving tale of unlikely love traces the journey of these very different women as each searches for freedom and dignity. Revised edition: This edition of Yellow Crocus includes editorial revisions.
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A Complicated Legacy
By Robert H. StuckyIf movies and books like Belle, Twelve Years a Slave, The Butler, The Help, A Time to Kill, and Amistad have moved you, you'll love A Complicated Legacy, a novel by Baltimore writer Robert H. Stucky based on the true story of Elijah Willis, ...
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Cambridge
By Caryl PhillipsIt is the story of Emily Cartwright, a young woman sent from England to visit her father's West Indian plantation, and Cambridge, a plantation slave, educated and Christianised by his first master in England and now struggling to maintain ...
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A Guide to the Microfilm Edition of Rpcords of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution Through the Civil War: Part...
By College of William and Mary, Martin Paul Schipper, Kenneth Milton StamppA Guide to the Microfilm Edition of Rpcords of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution Through the Civil War: Part...
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Ar'n't I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South
By Deborah Gray WhiteThis new edition of Ar'n't I a Woman? reviews and updates the scholarship on slave women and the slave family, exploring new ways of understanding the intersection of race and gender and comparing the myths that stereotyped female slaves ...
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Pergi
By Tere-LiyePergi
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Life of a Slave on a Southern Plantation
By Stephen CurrieThis book details the living conditions of plantation slaves, examining house, field and artisan work, food and clothing, marriage, and more.
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A Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Plantation South
By Stephen CurrieExamines the history of slavery in the United States.
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A Guide to the Microfilm Edition of Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution Through the Civil War
By Martin Paul SchipperA Guide to the Microfilm Edition of Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution Through the Civil War
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Felicity saves the day: a summer story
By Valerie TrippSummer on Grandfather's plantation next to the York River is heaven for Felicity. One day she finds a secret note and it is a cry for help. Felicity plunges into a dangerous adventure.
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Mistresses and Slaves: Plantation Women in South Carolina, 1830-80
By Marli Frances WeinerA volume in the series Women in American History, edited by Anne Firor Scott, Nancy A. Hewitt, and Stephanie Shaw