The Big House After Slavery

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The Big House After Slavery is written by Amy Feely Morsman and published by University of Virginia Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0813930030 (ISBN 10) and 9780813930039 (ISBN 13).

Using newspapers, periodicals, organization records, and numerous letters from Virginia planation families, Morsman captures how these frustrated elites made sense of embarrassing postwar changes, in the private but also in the public spheres they inhabited. Morsman suggests that the planters' adaptations may have been carried away from the crumbling plantations by their adult children into the urban house-holds of the New South. --Book Jacket.