plantation life

Using women's diaries, letters, memoirs, and oral histories the author writes a history of the southern women both slaveholding and slave women during the antebellum South before the Civil War.

This book describes what people wore on Southern plantations, discussing the clothes of the wealthy plantation owners, the hoop skirts worn by the Southern women in the 1800s, and the clothes made onthe plantation for the slaves.

Examines the history of the South's plantation era, focusing on the types of foods eaten in the big house and in the slave quarters, and includes recipes, as well as advice on kitchen safety and cooking equipment.

Perhaps the best written of all the slave narratives, Twelve Years a Slave is a harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American history. It recounts how Solomon Northup, born a free man in New York, was lured to Washington, D.C., in 1841 with the promise of fast money, then drugged and beaten and sold into slavery. He spent the next twelve years of his life in captivity on a Louisiana cotton plantation. After his rescue, Northup published this exceptionally vivid and detailed account of slave life. It became an immediate bestseller and today is recognized for its unusual insight and eloquence as one of the very few portraits of American slavery produced by someone as educated as Solomon Northup, or by someone with the dual perspective of having been both a free man and a slave.--Page [4] of cover.

Explores the role of African-Americans in creating and maintaining Mount Vernon, the home of U.S. president George Washington, in the century after his death, looking specifically at the work of Sarah Johnson, a slave who spent more than fifty years at the estate both before and after the Civil War, and who encouraged her friends and family members to continue the legacy.

The story of American slavery and Uncle Tom, an African-American man who never lost his dignity under the most inhumane circumstances.

Nore arrives at her stepmother's Louisiana plantation to find her new family odd and an aura of evil and mystery about the place.

Nine-year-old Felicity Merriman from colonial Williamsburg finds a secret note from Ben, her father's apprentice who has run away to join the colonial army, and goes off to help him.

Contains a short survey of the life, work, and sorrows of slaves in America including the slave trade, their work in the fields and in the "big house, " and the cruelty by their owners.

The author, a descendant of Charleston plantation owner Elias Ball, tells about his experiences attempting to trace the history of his family and the genealogies of the slave families once owned by the Balls.