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A GIRL'S LIFE
IN VIRGINIA
BEFORE THE WAR
"AN EVENING PARTY"—Page 115.
A GIRL'S LIFE
IN VIRGINIA
BEFORE THE WAR
BY
Letitia M. Burwell
WITH SIXTEEN FULL-PAGE
ILLUSTRATIONS BY
William A. McCullough AND Jules Turcas
Second Edition
New York
FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1895, by
Frederick A. Stokes Company.
DEDICATION.
Dedicated to my nieces, who will find in Englishand American publications such expressions appliedto their ancestors as: "cruel slave-owners";"inhuman wretches"; "southern taskmasters";"dealers in human souls," etc. From these theywill naturally recoil with horror. My own lifewould have been embittered had I believed myselfto be descended from such monsters; and thatthose who come after us may know the truth, Iwish to leave a record of plantation life as it was.The truth may thus be preserved among a few,and merited praise may be awarded to noble menand virtuous women who have passed away.
L. M. B.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
| PAGE | |
| "An evening party" | Frontispiece |
| "Carpenters always at work for the comfort of the plantation" | 2 |
| "Accompanied by one of these smiling 'indispensables'" | 4 |
| "I use to watch for de carriage" | 10 |
| "I don't want to be free no mo'" | 12 |
| "She always returned in a cart" | 18 |
| "Reading and repeating verses to him" | 26 |
| "My grandmother would show us the step of the minuet" | 32 |
| "There were old gentlemen visitors" | 34 |
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