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Two diaries From Middle St. John's, Berkeley, South Carolina, February-May, 1865
The anthology 'Two Diaries From Middle St. John's, Berkeley, South Carolina, February-May, 1865' presents a poignant and carefully curated collection of entries that shed light on the American South during a pivotal moment in history. This narrative captures the essence of life and turmoil during the final months of the Civil War, underscored by a rich tapestry of personal reflections, societal observations, and the distressing realities of a nation at war with itself. Through the lens of diverse literary styles, the diaries offer a unique juxtaposition of the everyday and the extraordinary, providing invaluable insights into the era's cultural and social milieu. The contributing authors, Ma...
Two Diaries: February-May, 1865 (Expanded, Annotated)
With Union troops literally in their backyard, two southern women of privilege recorded in their diaries the fall of the south in the last months of the American Civil War. "How much some people have suffered." Unable to see the suffering their southern culture has wrought for more than two centuries, the women seem only aware of the loss of those whose privilege was built on the bondage of others. Essential to the owning of a human being is the inability to see them as a human being. As Union "colored" troops are among the soldiers marching through their land, the women are terrified of what they may do or what they will stir up in the slaves that remain on plantations. They write of the "impudence" of some of their remaining slaves, as if a lifetime of bondage should not have been expected to embitter them and leave them with little politeness for their masters. This edition is abridged and annotated. For the first time, this long-out-of-print book is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE or download a sample.
A Day at a Time
Gathers diary selections, describes the historical background of each writer, and discusses the changing function and content of diaries.
All Things Altered
Few readers of Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind remained unmoved by how the strong-willed Scarlett O'Hara tried to rebuild Tara after the Civil War ended. This book examines the problems that Southern women faced during the Reconstruction Era, in Part I as mothers, wives, daughters or sisters of men burdened with financial difficulties and the radical Republican regime, and in Part II with specific illustrations of their tribulations through the letters and diaries of five different women. A lonely widow with young children, Sally Randle Perry is struggling to get her life back together, following the death of her husband in the war. Virginia Caroline Smith Aiken, a wife and mother, bo...
Two diaries from Middle St. Johns ́s, Berkeley, South Carolina, February-May, 1865
Reproduction of the original: Two diaries from Middle St. Johns ́s, Berkeley, South Carolina, February-May, 1865 by Charlotte St. J. Ravenel
Fatal Self-Deception
Slaveholders were preoccupied with presenting slavery as a benign, paternalistic institution in which the planter took care of his family and slaves were content with their fate. In this book, Eugene D. Genovese and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese discuss how slaveholders perpetuated and rationalized this romanticized version of life on the plantation. Slaveholders' paternalism had little to do with ostensible benevolence, kindness and good cheer. It grew out of the necessity to discipline and morally justify a system of exploitation. At the same time, this book also advocates the examination of masters' relations with white plantation laborers and servants - a largely unstudied subject. Southerners drew on the work of British and European socialists to conclude that all labor, white and black, suffered de facto slavery, and they championed the South's 'Christian slavery' as the most humane and compassionate of social systems, ancient and modern.
