<p>Written in the form of a letter to her granddaughter, the author of this little book describes her plantation childhood, her marriage and parenthood, and her experiences during the Civil War and Reconstruction. In response to what she believed were misconceptions about antebellum Southern slavery, she argues that while some slaveholders were cruel, the majority were conscientious about the well-being of their servants and looked upon them as members of the household.</p>

Old Plantation Days: Southern Life Before the Civil War

Biographies & Memoirs

De Saussure, Nancy Bostick

Historical

Confederate Reprint Company, The

Old Plantation Days: Being Recollections of Southern Life Before the Civil War

Nabu Press

History

Military

Sagwan Press

“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.” - Abraham Lincoln.Recollections of life on a plantation pre-Civil War, a thrilling slave escape story, Fifty Years in Chains by Charles Ball, a famous essay on Slavery and Abolitionism, a survey of ‘Christian slavery’ and The Marrow of Tradition by Charles W. Chestnut – it’s all here and more in Slave Narrative Six Pack 5: Fifty Years in Chains; or, the Life of an American Slave by Charles Ball. Cordelia Loney’s Escape by William Still. An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism by Catharine Esther Beecher. The Marrow of Tradition by Charles W. Chesnutt. Old Plantation Days: Being Recollections of Southern Life Before the Civil War N. B. De Saussure. American Scenes, and Christian Slavery - A Recent Tour of Four Thousand Miles in the United States by Ebenezer Davies.

Slave Narrative Six Pack 5

Chesnutt, Charles W.

Ball, Charles

Still, William

Beecher, Catharine Esther

Davies, Ebenezer

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