Life on a Southern Plantation

Life on a Southern Plantation
Author: Sally Senzell Isaacs
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2001
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781575723167

Provides information about what daily life was like on a southern plantation, including how slaves worked and dressed and what they ate.

My Life in the South

My Life in the South
Author: Jacob Stroyer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 116
Release: 1898
Genre: History
ISBN:

Jacob Stroyer was born a slave on the Singleton plantation near Columbia, South Carolina in 1849 and lived there until the Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in 1864. During the Civil War, he was sent to Sullivan's Island and Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, where he waited on Confederate officers. While there, Stroyer learned to read. Following his release from slavery, Jacob Stroyer settled in Salem, Massachusetts, and became minister of the African Methodist Episcopal Church there. This new and enlarged edition of Stroyer's narrative, My Life in the South, expands upon earlier editions, and was written with the hope of generating enough income to complete his education. The narrative covers his fifteen years in slavery providing information about his family, his life at his master's summer seat as well as the physical abuse he endured at the hands of the Singleton plantation's overseer. Stroyer also discusses the emotional strain that the slave trade put on his and other slave families and provides a series of brief anecdotes about slave life, culture, beliefs, and interactions with masters and slaves.

Slaves in the Family

Slaves in the Family
Author: Edward Ball
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2017-10-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 146689749X

Fifteen years after its hardcover debut, the FSG Classics reissue of the celebrated work of narrative nonfiction that won the National Book Award and changed the American conversation about race, with a new preface by the author The Ball family hails from South Carolina—Charleston and thereabouts. Their plantations were among the oldest and longest-standing plantations in the South. Between 1698 and 1865, close to four thousand black people were born into slavery under the Balls or were bought by them. In Slaves in the Family, Edward Ball recounts his efforts to track down and meet the descendants of his family's slaves. Part historical narrative, part oral history, part personal story of investigation and catharsis, Slaves in the Family is, in the words of Pat Conroy, "a work of breathtaking generosity and courage, a magnificent study of the complexity and strangeness and beauty of the word ‘family.'"

A Tale of Two Plantations

A Tale of Two Plantations
Author: Richard S. Dunn
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 553
Release: 2014-11-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0674735366

Richard Dunn reconstructs the lives of three generations of slaves on a sugar estate in Jamaica and a plantation in Virginia, to understand the starkly different forms slavery took. Deadly work regimens and rampant disease among Jamaican slaves contrast with population expansion in Virginia leading to the selling of slaves and breakup of families.

Old Plantation Days: Being Recollections of Southern Life Before the Civil War

Old Plantation Days: Being Recollections of Southern Life Before the Civil War
Author: N. B. De Saussure
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 53
Release: 2022-07-20
Genre: History
ISBN:

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.

Life of a Slave on a Southern Plantation

Life of a Slave on a Southern Plantation
Author: Stephen Currie
Publisher:
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2000
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781560065395

This book details the living conditions of plantation slaves, examining house, field and artisan work, food and clothing, marriage, and more.

Remembering Enslavement

Remembering Enslavement
Author: Amy E. Potter
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2022-03-15
Genre: Art
ISBN: 082036813X

Remembering Enslavement explores plantation museums as sites for contesting and reforming public interpretations of slavery in the American South. Emerging out of a three-year National Science Foundation grant (2014–17), the book turns a critical eye toward the growing inclusion of the formerly enslaved within these museums, specifically examining advances but also continuing inequalities in how they narrate and memorialize the formerly enslaved. Using assemblage theory as a framework, Remembering Enslavement offers an innovative approach for studying heritage sites, retelling and remapping the ways that slavery and the enslaved are included in southern plantation museums. It examines multiple plantation sites across geographic areas, considering the experiences of a diversity of actors: tourists, museum managers/owners, and tour guides/interpreters. This approach allows for an understanding of regional variations among plantation museums, narratives, and performances, as well as more in-depth study of the plantation tour experience and public interpretations. The authors conclude the book with a set of questions designed to help professionals reassemble plantation museum narratives and landscapes to more justly position the formerly enslaved at their center.