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A vivid, real-life portrait of a determined woman-led enterprise in the Rice Belt. The book presents Patience Pennington’s story as she manages two large plantations in South Carolina, facing weather, labor, and market challenges with practical skill and steadfast resolve.
Through a plainly told narrative, the reader encounters a frontier of plantation life shaped by endurance, resourcefulness, and a humane approach to duty. The tale highlights a resilient woman who guides operations, negotiates tough obstacles, and remains thoughtful about the people who work for her, all while seeking a life of purpose beyond mere profit.
- Experience a firsthand account of plantation management in a historical Southern setting.
- See how leadership, persistence, and practical know-how shape everyday work and outcomes.
- Observe reflections on race, labor, and community voiced with tenderness and candor.
- Understand the personal costs and rewards of pioneering agricultural ventures during a time of upheaval.
Ideal for readers interested in women’s history, Southern history, and early American agriculture, especially those who value courage, practicality, and human insight in nonfiction.
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Elizabeth Allston Pringle grew up on the antebellum rice plantation of her father, a former South Carolina governor. Once the owner of seven plantations and 15,000 acres, her father, at the time of his death, was bankrupt. Left to struggle for income to regain the property and position the family held prior to the war, Pringle turned to writing and eventually published a column on Southern culture in the New York Sun under the pseudonym Patience Pennington. In 1913 she collected and reshaped these newspaper columns and compiled them into one volume, A Woman Rice Planter. Her descriptions of the vagaries of rice planting, of her relationships with former slaves and the first generation of free-born African Americans, and of her life in the early Reconstruction period are important to our understanding of the prevailing attitudes and persistence of the Old South in the New
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Written by a white woman in post-Civil War South Carolina, this portrait offers opinions of male-dominated society, former slaves and the first generation of free-born African-Americans. Illustrated.
Copyright 1992 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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