plantation life

A narrative history of four generations of slaves and slave owners who lived on early-nineteenth-century Presbyterian minister Charles Colcock Jones's coastal Georgia plantations, covering the years 1805-69.

Tensions between Manon Gaudet, a fiercely discontent Louisiana plantation wife, and her young slave Sarah who has been forced into a sexual relationship with Manon's husband, come to a head in the 1820s when a slave rebellion touches all their lives.

Layla, who was born in India under an unlucky horoscope, has been raised to be educated despite everyone's expectations and has found love in the jungles of Assam on a successful tea plantation.

Chronicles the experiences of Solomon Northup after he was kidnapped from New York in 1841 and sold into slavery in the South.

Presents the true story of Solomon Northup, a born-free black man living in upstate New York. In 1841 he agreed to go with two men to Washington, D.C., supposedly to perform in a circus--instead the men drugged Solomon and took him to the South to sell him into slavery. For twelve years he worked for a variety of different masters, until he met a Canadian abolitionist who got word to his family.

In 1870, Reconstruction brings big changes to the Louisiana sugar plantation where spunky ten-year-old Sugar has always lived, including her friendship with Billy, the son of her former master, and the arrival of workmen from China.

This book views the plantation household as a site of production where competing visions of gender were wielded as weapons in class struggles between black and white women. Mistresses were powerful beings in the hierarchy of slavery rather than powerless victims of the same patriarchal system responsible for the oppression of the enslaved. Glymph challenges popular depictions of plantation mistresses as "friends" and "allies" of slaves and sheds light on the political importance of ostensible private struggles, and on the political agendas at work in framing the domestic as private and household relations as personal.

A monumental classic considered by many to be not only the greatest love story ever written, but also the greatest Civil War saga.

Focuses on the life and loves of the beautiful and selfish Scarlett O'Hara. The story begins on the O'Hara's Georgia plantation of Tara in antebellum days and moves through the Civil War and Reconstruction.