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MB042 Slave Songs of the
United States
Nancy Rhyne
Landmark book, first to collect and preserve songs sung
by the plantation slaves of the Old South.
Paper
Bookguy price $8.95
The Plantation Mistress: Woman's World in
the Old South
Catherine Clinton
This pioneering study of the much-mythologized
Southern belle offers the first serious look at the lives of white
women and their harsh and restricted place in the slave society
before the Civil War. Drawing on the diaries, letters, and memoirs
of hundreds of planter wives and daughters, Clinton sets before us
in vivid detail the daily life of the plantation mistress and her
ambiguous intermediary position in the hierarchy between slave and
master.
"The Plantation Mistress challenges and reinterprets a host of
issues related to the Old South. The result is a book that forces us
to rethink some of our basic assumptions about two peculiar
institutions -- the slave plantation and the nineteenth-century
family. It approaches a familiar subject from a new angle, and as a
result, permanently alters our understanding of the Old South and
women's place in it. Paper 352 pp. $14
Bookguy price $11.20
TEX020
Plantation Life In Texas
Elizabeth Silverthorne
From one sunup to the next and from harvest to harvest,
the daily routines of Texas plantation come to life through the
authors prose
Hardcover. out of print. one copy left.
Bookguy price $32.95
CIV011 Mothers of
Invention. Women of the Slaveholding South in the American
Civil War
D. G. Faust
Analysis of the impact of secession, invasion and conquest on
Southern white women.
Hardcover Bookguy Price $39.95
Also available in Paper for $12.95
CIV068
Plantation Tales.
Nancy Rhyne
A collection of tales from plantations in the Low country. Paper
Bookguy price $12.95
BLK040......Slaves In
The Family
Edward Ball
The author has written the non-fiction story
of black and white families who have lived side by side through
three hundred years, Hardcover. out of print. one new
copy left.
Bookguy price $29.95
paper also available
for $11.87
CIV057 The
Plantation Mistress Catherine Clinton
A serious look at the lives of white women and
their harsh and restricted place in the slave society before the
Civil War.
Bookguy
price $11.20
CIV047 Lucy
Breckenridge of Grove Hill. The Journal of a Virginia Girl 1862-64
Mary D. Robertson
Begun in 1862 to alleviate the "boredom of wartime," Lucy's
journal quickly became this intelligent young woman's confidante as
she came of age in war-torn Virginia.
Bookguy price $15.95
2 left in-stock
CIV034
A Northern Woman in the Plantation
South: Letters of Tryphena Blanche Holder Fox, 1856-1876
ed. by W. King-Hunter
Her revealing letters offer a candid look at middle-class southern
life and detail how Fox quickly accepted the customers, prejudices,
and politics of "this strange land," even choosing to support the
Confederacy while her brother fought for the Union.
Bookguy price $14.95
CIV033
A Woman Rice Planter
by Elizabeth A. Pringle
Her descriptions of the vagaries of rice planting, of her
relationships with former slaves and the first generation of
free-born African Americans, and of her life in the early
Reconstruction period are important to our understanding of the
prevailing attitudes and persistence of the Old South in the
New. $18.95
Bookguy Price $16.95
FEM052
Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839
Frances Anne Kemble ed.
by J. A. Scott
First published in 1863. Fanny Kemble was one of the
leading lights of the English stage in the nineteenth century.
During a tour of America in the 1830s she met and married a wealthy
Philadelphian, Piece Butler, part of whose fortune derived from his
family's cotton and rice plantation on the Sea Islands of Georgia.
Hardcover is out of print. Only one copy left.
Bookguy Price $32
Also available in Paper for
$13.95
CIV010 A
Plantation Mistress on the Eve of the Civil War. The Diary of
Keziah Goodwyn Hopkins Brevard, 1860-61.
edited by J. Moore.
Documents one plantation mistress's reflections on the
momentous events that shook the South during the months leading up
to the Civil War.
Bookguy Price $10.95
CIV022
Ten Years on a Georgia Plantation Since the War
Frances Butler
Leigh
out-of-print only one left.
Bookguy Price $39
CIV007 Brokenburn.
The Journal of Kate Stone 1861-1868. edited by J. Q.
Anderson.
Kate reveals much about a way of life that is no more: books
read, plantation management and crops, maintaining slaves in the
antebellum period, the attitude and conduct of slaves during the
war, the fate of refugees, and civilian morale.
Bookguy Price $24.95
FEM045 Within
The Plantation Household. Black and White Women of the Old South.
E. Fox-Genovese.
Testimony of plantation mistresses and their servants $19.95
Bookguy Price $13.97
COL001 The
Letterbook of Eliza Pinckney, 1739-1762
ed. by Elise Pinckney
One of the most distinguished women of colonial America, Eliza
L. Pinckney pioneered large-scale cultivation of indigo in South
Carolina, managed her father's extensive plantation holdings, and
raised two sons. $18.95
Bookguy price
$14.95