Plantation Life in Texas

Plantation Life in Texas by Elizabeth Silverthorne. Published by Texas A&M University Press, College Station, TX, 1986. 1st Edition. Hardbound. Paper DJ. Size 4to (up to 12'' tall). Condition: Fine in VG DJ. 234 Pgs. ISBN 089096288X. LCCN 86-5810. Number One in The Clayton Wheat Williams Texas Life Series. The relatively small number of powerful slaveholding planters set the style for Texas society and its institutions before the Civil War. Their fashions, religion, attitudes, and politics were fundamental to the development of Texas as we know it. However, the slaves owned by the planters had radically different lives, with primitive shelter, rough homespun clothing, and plain and sometimes insufficient food. The author explores every aspect of plantation life for all who lived it. Her research is based on the documents of planters from the early 1820s, through the ''golden age'' in the 1850s, and into Reconstruction; the unedited original manuscripts of the Works Progress Administration interviews with former slaves. Description text copyright 2017 www.BooksForComfort.net. Item ID 31776.