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As the wife of a frequently absent slaveholder and public figure, Anna Matilda Page King (1798-1859) was the de facto head of their Sea Island plantation. This volume collects more than 150 letters to her husband, children, parents, and others. Conveying the substance of everyday life as they chronicle King's ongoing struggles to put food on the table, nurse her "family black and white," and keep faith with a disappointing husband, the letters offer an absorbing firsthand account of antebellum coastal Georgia life. Anna Matilda Page was reared with the expectation that she would marry a planter, have children, and tend to her family's domestic affairs. Untypically, she was also schooled by h...
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Collaborative response in an artists' book format to the letters of Anna Matilda Page King to her family (written between 1817 to 1859) from "Retreat", her St. Simons Island, Georgia plantation.
A lifetime friend of Southern novelist Eugenia Price, Mary Bray Wheeler offers a unique guidebook to the historical places and people that give Price's novels their special Southern flavor. Travelers, sightseers, and history buffs--whether in cars or their reading chairs--will discover anew Price's treasured coastal Southeast. Maps and photographs.