Title: A northern woman in the plantation South
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.
Subjects: Correspondence, Women, Slaveholders, Slavery, Plantation life, Louisiana Civil War, 1861-1865, United States Civil War, 1861-1865, Personal narratives, History, Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877), Reconstruction, Slavery, united states, United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, personal narratives, Women, united states, Louisiana, history, American letters, Southern states, history
Places: Louisiana, United States
People: Tryphena Blanche Holder Fox (1834-1912)
Time periods: 19th century, Civil War, 1861-1865