Browse Items · The Haskell Monroe Collection: Life in the Confederacy

Alabama Plantation Life in 1860: Governor Benjamin Fitzpatrick's Oak Grove

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:1860, era:antebellum, loc:Alabama, loc:Montgomery AL, loc:Oak Grove Plantation AL, pd:1976, su:daily life, su:economics, su:homefront, su:northern perspective, su:Oak Grove Plantation, su:plantation, su:political, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:narrative

“1861-1865. Virginia. The war years as recalled by a woman who was five years of age when the conflict began.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Virginia, pd:1923, su:child girl, su:childhood, su:daily life, su:enslaved, su:homefront, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

“War, slavery, and politics.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1860s, loc:Carterville GA, loc:Georgia, pd:1903, su:enslaved, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:memory

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1860s, era:antebellum, loc:Louisiana, loc:white castle la, pd:1903, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:nottoway plantation, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, ts:correspondence, ts:diary, ts:memory

“Before, during, and after War, on a Louisiana plantation.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1860s, era:antebellum, loc:Louisiana, loc:white castle la, pd:1903, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:nottoway plantation, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, ts:correspondence, ts:diary, ts:memory

“May 1865. Florida. A recollection of the first days of peace, when “the air was full of rumors of defeat."

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Florida, pd:1893, su:civilian, su:enslaved, su:slavery, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

“A chronicle of two centuries of Louisiana plantation life told through remembrances, stories, diary excerpts, drawings, and lore.”

Tags: era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Louisiana, pd:1929, su:daily life, su:economics, su:enslaved, su:homefront, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:war experience, ts:memory, ts:narrative

“Yankee teacher in the South.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Sea Islands SC, loc:South Carolina, loc:St. Helena Island Sc, pd:1912, su:daily life, su:education, su:female experience, su:Freedmen, su:homefront, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:memory

“1861-1865. Hinds County, Mississippi. A general memory of the style and grace of the South.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, loc:Edwards MS, loc:Hinds County MS, loc:Mississippi, loc:Moss Side Plantation MS, pd:1928, su:childhood, su:family narrative, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, ts:memory