An antebellum plantation household
Subtitle: including the South Carolina low country receipts and remedies of Emily Wharton Sinkler
By: Anne Sinkler Whaley LeClercq.
Contributors: Sinkler, Emily Wharton, 1823-1875.
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Columbia, S.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
Subjects: Sinkler, Emily Wharton, 1823-1875 -- Manuscripts.; Plantation life -- South Carolina -- Santee River Region -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.; Plantation owners' spouses -- South Carolina -- Santee River Region -- Manuscripts.; Santee River Region (S.C.) -- History -- Sources.
Description: At the age of nineteen Emily Wharton married Charles Sinkler and moved eight hundred miles from her Philadelphia home to the swampy Low Country region of South Carolina. Suddenly she found herself living in a totally unfamiliar environment - a cotton plantation in an isolated area along the Santee River.

In monthly letters to her family she recorded thoughtful musings about her adopted home, and in a receipt book she assembled a trusted collection of culinary and medicinal recipes that reflect her ties to both North and South. Together with an extensive biographical and historical introduction by Anne Sinkler Whaley LeClercq, these documents provide a flavorful record of plantation cooking, folk medicine, travel, and social life in the antebellum South.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.