Life on the Old Plantation in Ante-Bellum Days Review
Life on the Old Plantation in Ante-Bellum Days Overview
This volume is from 1911. A summary from the book's Preface:
I have no apology to make, and no excuse to offer for writing this book, "Life on the Old Plantation in Ante-Bellum Days'. It is not the result of vanity, neither is it a desire for notoriety, that prompted me to write it. No, my reasons are higher, and my purposes are nobler. My only desire has been to do good. The religious element runs throuofh the entire story.
It has been a work of faith and a labor of love to me. I cannot express the pleasure I have had in sitting down, and recalling the incidents of my childhood and youth. In doing so, it has
enabled me to live my life over again. I only hope that the reader will experience something of the same pleasure in reading the book that I have had in writing it.
The "Brief Sketches of the Author" were written just twenty years ago by the late Rev. J. Wofford White. He was a colored man, and a close friend of mine, and was born and reared in the same neighborhood with myself. These sketches were printed in The Christian Witness, a Boston newspaper, and were clipped
and carefully pasted in my scrapbook. I republish them in this connection without changing a single word. I would ask the reader to peruse them carefully, and compare them with Chapter
XI, entitled "Little Jimmie, the Mail Boy," and note the similarity of characters.
I have written this book because there is no other work in existence just like it. No author, white or colored, so far as I know, has traversed, or attempted to traverse, the literary path which I presume to have trodden in writing this book. We are now about forty-five years away from the last days of slavery and the first days of freedom, and the people who have any personal
knowledge of those days are rapidly crossing the mystic river, and entering the land that knows no shadows; and soon, there will not be one left to tell the story. And it is the author's thought
that a record of the better life of those days should be left for the good of the future generations of this beautiful southland. Others have written of the evil side of those days, but the
author felt it to be his mission to write of the better side.
Before the war, the relation that existed between the master and his slaves was, in most cases, one of tenderness and affection. There was a mutual attachment between them, which has commanded the admiration of the world. But since the war, an estrangement between the colored and the white races has sprung up, which has resulted in a feeling of intense bitterness and alienation. But I am glad to say that things are now taking a turn for the better. I can see signs of a better day ahead ; and if this book should, in any way, contribute to, and help on this much
desired day, the author will be satisfied.
Chapters:
Brief Sketches of the Author
I. The Old Plantation
II. The Proprietor of the Old Plantation
III. Granny, the Cook, on the Old Plantation
IV. A Possum Hunt on the Old Plantation
V. A Wedding on the Old Plantation
VI. Christmas on the Old Plantation
VII. Sunday on the Old Plantation
VIII. A Funeral on the Old Plantation
IX. A Log-Rolling on the Old Plantation
X. A Corn-Shucking on thp Old Plantation
XI. Little Jimmie " the Mail Boy" on the Old Plantation
XII. A Love Story on the Old Plantation
XIII. The Breaking Up of the Old Plantation
Part Two
Appendix
Signs of a Better Day for the Negro in the South
By I. E. Lowery
Chapters:
I. Introduction
II. White Patrons of Negro Business Enteprises
III. White Contributors Toward the Building of Negro Churches
IV. White Contributors Toward the Building of Negro Churches
V. White Contributors Toward the Building of Negro Schools
VI. Current Incidents of Negro Industrial Achievements
VII. Friendly Expressions of Southern White People for the Negro
VIII. Friendly Expressions of Southern White People for the Negro
IX. The White People's Care of the Old Black Mammies
Life on the Old Plantation in Ante-Bellum Days Specifications
This volume is from 1911. A summary from the book's Preface:
I have no apology to make, and no excuse to offer for writing this book, "Life on the Old Plantation in Ante-Bellum Days'. It is not the result of vanity, neither is it a desire for notoriety, that prompted me to write it. No, my reasons are higher, and my purposes are nobler. My only desire has been to do good. The religious element runs throuofh the entire story.
It has been a work of faith and a labor of love to me. I cannot express the pleasure I have had in sitting down, and recalling the incidents of my childhood and youth. In doing so, it has
enabled me to live my life over again. I only hope that the reader will experience something of the same pleasure in reading the book that I have had in writing it.
The "Brief Sketches of the Author" were written just twenty years ago by the late Rev. J. Wofford White. He was a colored man, and a close friend of mine, and was born and reared in the same neighborhood with myself. These sketches were printed in The Christian Witness, a Boston newspaper, and were clipped
and carefully pasted in my scrapbook. I republish them in this connection without changing a single word. I would ask the reader to peruse them carefully, and compare them with Chapter
XI, entitled "Little Jimmie, the Mail Boy," and note the similarity of characters.
I have written this book because there is no other work in existence just like it. No author, white or colored, so far as I know, has traversed, or attempted to traverse, the literary path which I presume to have trodden in writing this book. We are now about forty-five years away from the last days of slavery and the first days of freedom, and the people who have any personal
knowledge of those days are rapidly crossing the mystic river, and entering the land that knows no shadows; and soon, there will not be one left to tell the story. And it is the author's thought
that a record of the better life of those days should be left for the good of the future generations of this beautiful southland. Others have written of the evil side of those days, but the
author felt it to be his mission to write of the better side.
Before the war, the relation that existed between the master and his slaves was, in most cases, one of tenderness and affection. There was a mutual attachment between them, which has commanded the admiration of the world. But since the war, an estrangement between the colored and the white races has sprung up, which has resulted in a feeling of intense bitterness and alienation. But I am glad to say that things are now taking a turn for the better. I can see signs of a better day ahead ; and if this book should, in any way, contribute to, and help on this much
desired day, the author will be satisfied.
Chapters:
Brief Sketches of the Author
I. The Old Plantation
II. The Proprietor of the Old Plantation
III. Granny, the Cook, on the Old Plantation
IV. A Possum Hunt on the Old Plantation
V. A Wedding on the Old Plantation
VI. Christmas on the Old Plantation
VII. Sunday on the Old Plantation
VIII. A Funeral on the Old Plantation
IX. A Log-Rolling on the Old Plantation
X. A Corn-Shucking on thp Old Plantation
XI. Little Jimmie " the Mail Boy" on the Old Plantation
XII. A Love Story on the Old Plantation
XIII. The Breaking Up of the Old Plantation
Part Two
Appendix
Signs of a Better Day for the Negro in the South
By I. E. Lowery
Chapters:
I. Introduction
II. White Patrons of Negro Business Enteprises
III. White Contributors Toward the Building of Negro Churches
IV. White Contributors Toward the Building of Negro Churches
V. White Contributors Toward the Building of Negro Schools
VI. Current Incidents of Negro Industrial Achievements
VII. Friendly Expressions of Southern White People for the Negro
VIII. Friendly Expressions of Southern White People for the Negro
IX. The White People's Care of the Old Black Mammies
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