An Antebellum Plantation Household
Subtitle: Including the South Carolina Low Country Receipts And Remedies of Emily Wharton Sinkler / With Eighty-two Newly Discovered ... (Women's Diaries and Letters of the South)
Edition: 2Rev Ed edition
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: May 31, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781570036347
Subjects: Food & Drink / Cookery; Local history; Social History; Sources; Regional & Ethnic - American - Southern States; Manuscripts; United States - Antebellum Era; Social Science; History - U.S.; Sociology; Southeastern & South Atlantic states; Santee River Region; United States - State & Local - South; South Carolina; History; Women's Studies - General; 19th century; Plantation life; Plantation owners' spouses
Description: At the age of nineteen, Emily Wharton married Charles Sinkler and moved eight hundred miles from her Philadelphia home to a cotton plantation in an isolated area in the South Carolina Low Country. In monthly letters to her northern family, she recorded keen observations about her adopted home, and in a receipt book, she assembled a trusted collection of culinary and medicinal recipes reflecting her ties to both North and South. Together with an extensive biographical and historical introduction, these documents provide a record of plantation cooking, folk medicine, travel, and social life in the antebellum South.--Publisher's description.