Old Plantation Days

"Being Recollections of Southern Life before the Civil War." — First-hand remembrances and original source material by a Vassar College (NY) principal for her granddaughter describing the life of a large family on a South Carolina plantation during antebellum and war years. "Reconstruction" struggles and its attendant horrors along with survival anecdotes conclude these personal reminiscences. Originally published in 1909 and consisting of 123 pages.