A northern woman in the plantation South
Subtitle: letters of Tryphena Blanche Holder Fox, 1856-1876
By: edited by Wilma King.
Contributors: King, Wilma, 1942-
Series: Women's diaries and letters of the nineteenth-century South
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
Subjects: Fox, Tryphena Blanche Holder, 1834-1912 -- Correspondence.; Plantation life -- Louisiana -- History -- 19th century.; Slavery -- Louisiana.; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Louisiana.; Women -- Louisiana -- Correspondence.; Slaveholders -- Louisiana -- Correspondence.; Louisiana -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.
Description: Eighty-one letters written from Louisiana by the Massachusetts-born-and-bred Tryphena Blanche Holder Fox recounting her experiences as a small slaveholder and the wife of a physician who cared for the slaves owned by wealthy sugar planters in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-272) and index.