Life on the old plantation in ante-bellum days, or, A story based on facts
By: Rev. Irving E. Lowery, b. 1850
Contributors: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: African Americans; Biography; Social conditions; Slaves; Freed persons; Social life and customs; History; Plantation life; Slavery; Race relations
Other titles: Story based on facts; North American slave narratives.
Description: Rev. Irving E. Lowery as born a slave in 1850 in Sumter County, South Carolina.  After the War, Lowery studied and became a Methodist Episcopal minister serving in Greenville and Aiken, South Carolina.  This book gives Lowery's account of slave 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.  He describes plantation life pleasantly and nostalgically.  Lowery also discusses social and racial relations after Emancipation as well as his views on the improving state of racial relations in the early 20th century.
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"Appendix. Signs of a better day for the Negro in the South. Being the reprint of a series of articles written for the Daily record of Columbia, S.C., by Rev. I.E. Lowery": p. 133-186.

This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South, beginnings to 1920.  It is a part of the collection North American slave narratives.

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Transcribed from: Life on the old plantation in ante-bellum days, or, A story based on facts / by Rev. I. E. Lowery ; with brief sketches of the author by the late Rev. J. Wofford White of the South Carolina Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church and an appendix. Columbia, S.C. : The State Co., Printers, 1911. 186 p. : port. ; 20 cm.

Funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities supported the electronic publication of this title.

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