women plantation owners

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women plantation owners

The darker face of the earth

a verse play in fourteen scenes
1994
A classical tragedy based on the story of Oedipus, set on a plantation in antebellum South Carolina.

At fault

2002
In rural Louisiana after Reconstruction, Therese Lafirme, a thirty-year-old widow, falls in love with David Hosmer, but rejects his marriage proposal because of her religious opposition to divorce.

A day in the life of a colonial indigo planter

2004
Describes the life of Eliza Lucas Pinckney, and the Indigo plantation she began in South Carolina, includes vocabulary words with definitions.
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