the letters of a St. Simons Island plantations mistress, 1817-1859
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- King, Anna Matilda Page
- Creator
- Pavich-Lindsay, Melanie > (ed.)
- Publish Year
- 2002
- Shelfmark
- B3654 - B
- Thesaurus
- slavernij, leidinggevende beroepen, huwelijken, platteland, Verenigde Staten, 19e eeuw, autobiografie, brief
- Description
- As the wife of a frequently absent slaveholder and public figure, Anna Matilda Page King (1798-1859) was the de facto head of their Sea Island plantation. This volume collects more than 150 letters to her husband, children, parents, and others. Conveying the substance of everyday life as they chronicle King's ongoing struggles to put food on the table, nurse her 'family black and white', and keep faith with a disappointing husband, the letters offer a firsthand acount of antebellum coastal Georgia life.