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Recreates a southern plantation of 1853 and describes the daily lives of its owners and of the slaves who worked there.
Provides information about what daily life was like on a southern plantation, including how slaves worked and dressed and what they ate.
"Until 1865, millions of slaves worked on plantations and small farms throughout the southern United States. The most common image is of slaves forced into difficult labor on cotton or tobacco fields. However, some plantation slaves were proficient craftsmen, trained in metalworking, carpentry, or other specialized skills. Others were house servants, who cooked and cleaned for their white masters. This book will give readers a better understanding of the daily lives of plantation slaves, along with the oppression and challenges that they faced"--Back cover.
A detailed portrait of a cotton plantation in the Deep South before the Civil War, based on a real plantation house in Louisiana. Here is the world of the Southern plantation seen from two views: the owners, who rule over their 900-acre domain from the stately, well-appointed Big House, and the slaves, who live in small wooden cabins, toil long hours, and hope for freedom. Through many detailed and colorful photographs of exteriors, interiors, and artifacts; drawings; a time line and glossary; and an information-packed narrative, readers will experience for themselves everyday life on a pre-Civil War Southern plantation. Includes more than 130 original color photos of artifacts and interiors from the Big House and slaves' quarters, and a list of places to visit.
The Picture the Past series looks at the many kinds of communities in America's past. Each book describes what made each community different and what children and adults did each day. Life on a Southern Plantation In this book, discover what life was like on a southern plantation before the Civil War. See how slaves were forced to work. Learn how plantation children and slaves dressed. Visit the owner's big house and a slave cabin. Then use a recipe to make a plantation dessertsweet potato pie.
Life on a Plantation compares the lives and customs of plantation owners who lived in grand style in the "big house" next door to the slaves who lived in slave quarters and worked in the cotton, rice, and tobacco fields in the civil war era.
Discusses the daily life of slaves on Southern plantations, including home life, family, work, and treatment by slave owners and society.
Old Plantation Days is a memoir in the form of a letter that Nancy Bostick writes reflecting on her life on a plantation and her marriage and parenthood afterward during the Civil War. Excerpt: The South as I knew it has disappeared; the New South has risen from its ashes, filled with the energetic spirit of a new age.