Daily Life on a Southern Plantation 1853 (Hardcover) by Paul Erickson, Paul Erikson

9780525675471. New condition. Hard cover. AMERICAN ed. Language: English. Pages: 48. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 48 p. Contains: Illustrations. Intended for a juvenile audience. Meet the Henderson family of New Iberia, Louisiana, who live on a sugar plantation in 1853. Full-color photographs of interiors, clothing, and other objects, plus artwork and oral history, document a typical day on a plantation. Readers learn about mealtimes, leisure hours, doctors and disease, and bedtimes, as well as attitudes toward slavery, slave meetings, and much more in this unique visit to the Antebellum South. 130 photos. Illustrations, maps.