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The journal of Sarah Haynsworth Gayle, 1827-1835 : a substitute for social intercourse / edited by Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins and Ruth Smith Truss.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gayle, Sarah Ann Haynesworth, 1804-1835.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women plantation owners--Alabama--Diaries.
- Women plantation owners.
- Plantation life--Alabama.
- Plantation life.
- Frontier and pioneer life--Alabama.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Alabama--Politics and government--To 1865.
- Alabama.
- Gayle, Sarah Ann Haynesworth, 1804-1835--Diaries.
- Gayle, Sarah Ann Haynesworth.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (384 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa, Alabama : The University of Alabama Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Astonishing, tragic, and remarkable, the journal of Sarah Haynsworth Gayle, wife of early Alabama governor John Gayle, is among the most widely studied and seminal accounts of antebellum life in the American South. This is the first complete edition of the journal in print. Bereft of the companionship of her often-absent husband, Sarah considered her journal "a substitute for social intercourse" during the period from 1827 to 1835. It became the social and intellectual companion to which she confided stories that reflected her personal life and the world of early Alabama. S
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Editorial Policy; Introduction; 1827; 1828; 1829; 1830; 1831; 1832; 1833; 1834; 1835; Epilogue; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-8716-1
- OCLC:
- 861200338
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