| General note | Cover title. |
| General note | "Dedicated to my nieces, who will find in English and American publications such epithets applied to their ancestors as: 'Cruel slave-owners;' 'inhuman;' 'Southern task masters;' 'hard-hearted;' 'dealers in human souls,' &c. From these they will naturally recoil with horror. My own life would have been embittered had I believed myself descended from such; and that those who come after us may know the truth I wish to leave a record of plantation life as it was. The truth may thus be preserved among a few, and the praise they deserve awarded noble men and virtuous women who have passed away."--Dedication, p. [1]. |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner Rare copy Purchased from Jim Crotts, 5/27/2023 |
| Biographical note | Letitia M. Burwell (1810-1905) grew up at Avenel House (Plantation) in Bedford, VA as one of four daughters of William and Frances Steptoe Burwell. This text was re-published in 1895 under her own name as "A Girl's Life in Virginia Before the War." |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Burwell, Letitia M. Plantation reminiscences. [Owensboro? Ky.] 1878 |
| LCCN | 01021407 |
