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Series
Bulletin volume 8
Publisher
G.P.O
Pub. Date
1889
Physical Desc
volumes : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date
©2002
Physical Desc
xxxiv, 453 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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...
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