Title: An antebellum plantation household
First published: 1996
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.
Subjects: Sources, Manuscripts, History, Plantation life, Plantation owners' spouses, Santee river (s.c.)
Places: South Carolina, Santee River Region, Santee River Region (S.C.)
People: Emily Wharton Sinkler (1823-1875)
Time periods: 19th century
LC classification: F277.S28 L4 1996