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Daily life on a southern plantation, 1853 / Paul Erickson.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection F213 .E75 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Erickson, Paul, 1976-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Southern States--Social life and customs--1775-1865--Juvenile literature.
- Southern States.
- Plantation life--Southern States--History--19th century--Juvenile literature.
- Plantation life.
- Enslaved persons--Southern States--Social conditions--Juvenile literature.
- Enslaved persons.
- Southern States--Social life and customs.
- Slavery--Southern States.
- Manners and customs.
- Enslaved persons--Social conditions.
- Genre:
- Nonfiction.
- History.
- Juvenile works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 48 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 32 cm
- Edition:
- [1st American ed.]
- Other Title:
- Southern plantation
- 1853 daily life on a Southern plantation
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Lodestar Books [an affiliate of Dutton Children's Books, a member of Penguin Putnam Inc., 1998].
- Summary:
- Recreates a southern plantation of 1853 and describes the daily lives of its owners and of the slaves who worked there.
- Contents:
- The World of the southern plantation
- The Slave trade
- The Families
- The Plantation
- The Big house
- The Quarters
- Early morning
- Waking the Hendersons
- The Kitchen
- Morning chores in the big house
- The Children's day
- Work in the cotton fields
- Sugar cultivation
- Midday
- A Trip to New Orleans
- Slave discipline
- Leisure time
- Doctors and death
- Evening
- Bedtime
- A Slave meeting
- The Plantation in time.
- Notes:
- "Originally published in Great Britain in 1997 by Heinemann Children's Reference"--Title page verso.
- "Design: Paul Cooper."
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Erickson, Paul, 1976- Daily life on a southern plantation, 1853.
- ISBN:
- 0525675477
- 9780525675471
- OCLC:
- 37246427
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