Letters from Forest Place: A Plantation Family's Correspondence 1846-1881 by E. Grey Dimond,Herman Hattaway

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Maryville Univ Internet. Dimond, E. Grey (Edmunds Grey), 1918-2013. NetLibrary, Inc. ISBN.

The correspondence provides an intimate look into activities in the household of Forest Place during a period of great propserity and a period of decline. The letters reveal the poignant history of Dr. Watkins, a non practicing physician, his wife, and their two daughters. Some include passages written to various favored slaves, who in return dictated their responses. Besides offering a glimpse into the domestic life on a cotton plantation, these letters picture the years both of abundance and of twilight at Forest Place. The national sectional controversy attracts only scant attention

548 pages, 6 x 9 inches. The correspondence provides an intimate look into activities in the household of Forest Place during a period of great prosperity and a period of decline. Watkins, a nonpracticing physician, his wife, and their two daughters. Besides offering a glimpse into the domestic life on a cotton plantation, these letters picture the years of abundance and decay. The national sectional controversy attracts only scant attention.

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LETTERS FROM A FOREST SCHOOL CHITTARANJAN DAS Translation DIPTIRANJAN PATTANAIK Foreword In the 1950s Chittaranjan Das. Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic. Plantation Technology in Tropical Forest Science Planta.

Dimond, E. Grey and Herman Hattaway, eds. Letters from Forest Place: A Plantation Family’s Correspondence 1846-1881. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1993. Watkins plantation in Carroll County included approximately 75 slaves, some of whom are mentioned in the correspondence. Early Jefferson County African Americans. Mississippi River Routes 1:3 (Spring 1994).

Specifically, the letters delineate daily life on a Mississippi cotton plantation, detail the intimacies of a troubled marriage, and describe the attempts of a wife and mother to keep the bonds of family secure. During the Civil War, life at Forest Place continued much as it had before. The primary focus of Sarah's letters centers on the struggle to cope with an alarming variety of shortages that appeared as early as 1861.