Life on the old plantation in ante-bellum days
Subtitle: or, A story based on facts
By: by Rev. I.E. Lowery, with brief sketches of the author by the late Rev. J. Wofford White.
Publisher: The State co., printers
Published: 1911
Place of publication: Columbia, S.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
Subjects: Plantation life.; African Americans -- Southern States -- Social life and customs.; Southern States -- Social life and customs.
Description: Account by a former slave of life on the plantation, describing the work, religious, funerary, courting, and recreation practices of the slaves, as well as the social relations between slaves and slaveowners. Appendix discusses social and racial relations after Emancipation and presents the author's views on the state of race relations in the early 20th century.
Notes: "Appendix. Signs of a better day for the negro in the South. Being the reprint of a series of articles written for the Dally record of Columbia, S.C., by Rev. I.E. Lowery." p. 133-186.