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Evablina -- Last of the Old Virinia Slaves
“General. A remembrance of a loyal family servant.”
Flower de Hundred: The Story of a Virginia Plantation
“Life before and during the war.”
Letters From Nashville, 1862: "Dear Master"
“1862. The Military Governor of Tennessee (Andrew Johnson) arrested General William Giles Harding as a political prisoner. During his six-month incarceration, his plantation, "Belle Meade," was managed by his wife, Elizabeth. These letters indicate…
Letters From Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War.
“The New England schoolmarms and reformers who came to the South to aid the freedmen at Port Royal, SC described their experiences in the Sea Islands during the Civil War era”.
Life on the Old Plantation
1865. Georgia. A warm recollection of plantation days and the change brought by the war, and especially the kindness of “Uncle Wilkes.”