An antebellum plantation household : including the South Carolina low country receipts and remedies of Emily Wharton Sinkler / Anne Sinkler Whaley LeClercq.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

LeClercq, Anne Sinkler Whaley, 1942-

Contributor:

Sinkler, Emily Wharton, 1823-1875.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sinkler, Emily Wharton, 1823-1875.

Plantation life--South Carolina--Santee River Region--History--19th century--Sources.

Plantation life.

Plantation owners' spouses.

Manuscripts.

History.

Santee River Region (S.C.)--History--Sources.

Santee River Region (S.C.).

Sinkler, Emily Wharton, 1823-1875--Manuscripts.

Sinkler, Emily Wharton.

Plantation owners' spouses--South Carolina--Santee River Region--Manuscripts.

South Carolina--Santee River Region.

Physical Description:

xix, 181 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, [1996]

Summary:

At the age of nineteen Emily Wharton married Charles Sinkler and moved eight hundred miles from her Philadelphia home to the swampy Low Country region of South Carolina. Suddenly she found herself living in a totally unfamiliar environment - a cotton plantation in an isolated area along the Santee River. In monthly letters to her family she recorded thoughtful musings about her adopted home, and in a receipt book she assembled a trusted collection of culinary and medicinal recipes that reflect her ties to both North and South. Together with an extensive biographical and historical introduction by Anne Sinkler Whaley LeClercq, these documents provide a flavorful record of plantation cooking, folk medicine, travel, and social life in the antebellum South.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1570031290

OCLC:

34319567