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Daily life on a southern plantation, 1853 / Paul Erickson.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection F213 .E75 2000
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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:
- Literature.
- History.
- Juvenile works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 48 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 32 cm
- Other Title:
- Southern plantation
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Puffin Books [published by the Penguin Group, 2000].
- 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:
- "First published in the United States of America by Lodestar Books, an affiliate of Dutton Children's Books, a member of Penguin Putnam, Inc., 1998."
- "Published by Puffin Books, a member of Penguin Putanm Books for Young Readers, 2000."
- "Art director, Nigel Osborne."
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0140566686 :
- 9780140566680
- OCLC:
- 44386697
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