Disunion, War, Defeat, and Recovery in Alabama: The Journal of Augustus Benners, 1850-1885Mercer University Press, 2007 - 357 halaman ""Disunion, War, Defeat, and Recovery in Alabama offers a rare look into the life of a Civil War character many would say they love to hate: the plantation owner. A slave-owning cotton grower, Augustus Benners recorded decades of his mostly gritty and unglamorous plantation life ... Deft editing, annotation, and explanatory notes by Glenn and Virginia Linden complement and elucidate Benners's historical accounts"--From publisher's description. |
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... Wednesday we spoke to a small company at Oak Grove — and here Mr Huckabee dwelt prominently on the fact that he was a planter & made good corn the best proof of which he said was the fact that it staid in his crib all the year round ...
... Wednesday we spoke to a small company at Oak Grove — and here Mr Huckabee dwelt prominently on the fact that he was a planter & made good corn the best proof of which he said was the fact that it staid in his crib all the year round ...
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... Wednesday spoke at Forkland — The company was not a very large but was a very intelligent one . I spoke first after dinner and immediately thereafter bid Webb & Mr Hatch12 good bye and came home in my carriage which Jane had sent there ...
... Wednesday spoke at Forkland — The company was not a very large but was a very intelligent one . I spoke first after dinner and immediately thereafter bid Webb & Mr Hatch12 good bye and came home in my carriage which Jane had sent there ...
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... Wednesday . Found the hands at Walker Place gathering corn — the Pick 13 room full of cotton . Lydia and Ellen sick . Gray Huckabee , planter , Newbern . Ibid . , 23 . 14 Among Benners's slaves , there is Big Wash , Wash , and Little ...
... Wednesday . Found the hands at Walker Place gathering corn — the Pick 13 room full of cotton . Lydia and Ellen sick . Gray Huckabee , planter , Newbern . Ibid . , 23 . 14 Among Benners's slaves , there is Big Wash , Wash , and Little ...
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... Wednesday about dinner time — and reached Mobile friday morning about 10 o clock . We had a very hard blow and rain as we went into Mobile — much damage was done by it to the shipping at Orleans and Galveston . I went to the Battle ...
... Wednesday about dinner time — and reached Mobile friday morning about 10 o clock . We had a very hard blow and rain as we went into Mobile — much damage was done by it to the shipping at Orleans and Galveston . I went to the Battle ...
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... Wednesday Morning 27th Jany — We arrived before day and Edward and I left the boat and walked to his house about a mile — his family were all asleep but were soon aroused , a fire kindled in the parlor and we had a glorious reunion ...
... Wednesday Morning 27th Jany — We arrived before day and Edward and I left the boat and walked to his house about a mile — his family were all asleep but were soon aroused , a fire kindled in the parlor and we had a glorious reunion ...
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The Reconstruction Years May 18651877 | 138 |
The Later Years 18781885 | 263 |
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