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Life on the old plantation in ante-bellum days, or, A story based on facts

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"Appendix. Signs of a better day for the Negro in the South. Being the reprint of a series of articles written for the Daily record of Columbia, S.C., by Rev. I.E. Lowery": p. 133-186.Rev. Irving E. Lowery as born a slave in 1850 in Sumter County, South Carolina. After the War, Lowery studied and became a Methodist Episcopal minister serving in Greenville and Aiken, South Carolina. This book gives Lowery's account of slave life on the plantation, describing the work, religious, funerary, courting, and recreation practices of the slaves, as well as the social relations between slaves and slaveowners. He describes plantation life pleasantly and nostalgically. Lowery also discusses social and racial relations after Emancipation as well as his views on the improving state of racial relations in the early 20th century.Also available in digital form on the Internet Archive Web site.digitized20150310pdaGEU-Spublic domainThe online edition of this book in the public domain, i.e., not protected by copyright, has been produced by the Emory University Digital library Publications Program
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Keywords

  1. African American Author
  2. African Americans
  3. Biography
  4. Civil War
  5. Civil War, 1861 1865
  6. Freedmen
  7. History
  8. Lowery, I. E. (Irving E.), 1850
  9. Plantation Life
  10. Race Relations
  11. Slaver
  12. Slavery
  13. Slaves
  14. Social Conditions
  15. Social Life And Customs
  16. South Carolina
  17. Southern States
  18. Sumter County
  19. United States

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