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1) The big house after slavery: Virginia plantation families and their postbellum domestic experiment
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
xii, 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Born on a plantation in Charles City, Virginia, Pheby Brown was promised her freedom on her eighteenth birthday. Instead she finds herself thrust into the bowels of slavery at the infamous Devil's Half-Acre, a jail where slaves are broken, tortured, and sold every day. Forced to become the mistress of the brutal man who owns the jail, Pheby's survival lies in outwitting him-- even if it means making the ultimate sacrifice. -- adapted from back cover...
Series
Library of America volume 234
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
xxix, 905 pages : color maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Spanning the crucial months from January 1863 to March 1864, this third volume of The Library of America's highly acclaimed four volume series presents an incomparable portrait of a nation at war with itself while illuminating the military and political events that brought the Union closer to victory and slavery closer to destruction. It brings together more than 140 contemporary letters, diary entries, speeches, articles, messages, and poems by more...
Series
Library of America volume 250
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xxvii, 886 pages : color maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
" ... [Draws from] letters, diary entries, speeches, articles, messages and poems to provide an incomparable literary portrait of a nation at war with itself, while illuminating the military and political events that brought the Union to final victory and slavery and secession to their ultimate destruction ..."--Dust jacket flap.
Author
Series
Norton library volume N857
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
1977.
Physical Desc
vi, 114 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
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