Life On The Old Plantation In Ante-Bellum Days
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Irving E. Lowery was born into slavery in Sumter County, South Carolina, in 1850. After the Civil War he trained as a Methodist Episcopal minister and served congregations in Greenville and Aiken. In this account he looks back at daily life on a Southern plantation before emancipation, recalling the labor, worship, burials, courtship, and leisure of the enslaved people there, along with the relationships between them and those who owned them. His memories are warm and wistful in tone. The book also turns to race relations after emancipation and the author's hopeful view of conditions for Black Americans in the early twentieth century, including a closing appendix of examples of progress.
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