A Woman Rice Planter

Patience Pennington

ISBN 10: 0674430034 / ISBN 13: 9780674430037

Published by Harvard University Press Mai 2014, 2014

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Woman Rice Planter
• Publisher: Harvard University Press Mai 2014
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674430034
• ISBN 13: 9780674430037
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 236W x 160H x 32D millimeters 236 millimeters width by 160 millimeters height by 32 millimeters depth
• Weight: 874 grams

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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