plantation life

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plantation life

Masters without slaves

southern planters in the Civil War and Reconstruction
1977

Gone with the wind

2009
When Scarlett O'Hara's beloved plantation life is destroyed by the Civil War, she single-mindedly rebuilds her privileged place in society, but loses her true love in the process.

Till freedom cried out

memories of Texas slave life
1997
Contains over twenty-five oral history narratives of former slaves in Texas during the nineteenth century, discussing their family relations, entertainment, work on plantations, and how they were treated by their owners.

Eliza Pinckney

1977
A biography of the industrious young woman who helped introduce the cultivation of the indigo plant in South Carolina.

Christmas in the big house, Christmas in the quarters

2002
Describes the customs, recipes, poems, and songs used to celebrate Christmas in the big plantation houses and in the slave quarters just before the Civil War.

Uncle Tom's cabin

2009
Harriet Beecher Stowe's classic anti-slavery novel about the realities of slavery in the pre-Civil War South.

Thomas Jefferson

draftsman of a nation
2007
Presents a comprehensive biography of inventor, statesman, and third President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson, that examines his sometimes controversial personal and professional life in the context of eighteenth-century America.

Locked in time

1986
Nore arrives at her stepmother's Louisiana plantation to find her new family odd and an aura of evil and mystery about the place.

Sugar

2013
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.

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