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Transcriber's note:

Text enclosed by underscores is in italics .

The author's name on the cover and in the copyright notice seems to be a pseudonym. According to the catalog of the Library of Congress, the author was Letitia M. Burwell.

PLANTATION REMINISCENCES

PAGE THACKER.

Copyrighted in 1878 by Page Thacker.

DEDICATION.

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.

PREFACE

For several years I have felt a desire to write these reminiscences, but did not conclude to do so until receiving, a few months ago, a letter from Mr. Martin F. Tupper--the English poet--in which he wrote: "Let me encourage you in the idea of writing 'Plantation Reminiscences.' It will be a good work; and it is time the world was learning the truth. I myself have learned it and shall not be slow in telling it to others."

PLANTATION REMINISCENCES.

That my birth place should have been a Virginia plantation; my lot in life cast on a Virginia plantation; my ancestors, for nine generations, owners of Virginia plantations, remain facts mysterious and inexplicable but to Him who determined the bounds of our habitations, and said: "Be still, and know that I am God."

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