Tokens of Affection: The Letters of a Planter's Daughter in the Old South Hardcover - 1996
by Maria Bryan; Carol K. Bleser (Editor)
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This collection comprises all of the known letters written by Maria Bryan (1803-44) of Mt. Zion, Georgia, to her sister Julia Bryan Cumming of Augusta. Spanning a period from the mid-1820s to the mid-1840s, the letters relate firsthand the daily affairs and concerns of a planter's daughter on a moderately successful plantation in Hancock County, the heart of what was then the greatest cotton growing region in the world. A refined and remarkably well-educated woman, Maria Bryan began corresponding with her sister when she was sixteen years old. As Carol Bleser points out in her introduction, Bryan travels, reads the popular books of the day, entertains visitors, and makes social calls. At the same time, however, notes Bleser, Bryan's letters belie popular notions about the privileged lives of "typical" planters' daughters in the antebellum South, for she also works at housekeeping, tends the sick at home and in the neighborhood, makes clothes for the family's slaves, and tutors younger siblings. Bryan's letters keep her sister abreast of local news and gossip (a preacher who can no longer hide that he is suffering from a venereal disease) and family rifts and reconciliations (a brother's apparently severe depression and consequent aimlessness in life and career). They also contain a number of references to the family's slaves. In one letter only, however, did she reveal any feelings about the institution itself. Writing in January 1827 that their overseer had punished her personal slave, Jenny, for not meeting her quota of spinning, Bryan told her sister, "It would have distressed you to see her face bloody and swelled. Oh how great an evil is slavery".
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- Title Tokens of Affection: The Letters of a Planter's Daughter in the Old South
- Author Maria Bryan; Carol K. Bleser (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 444
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Georgia Press, Athens
- Date 1996
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780820317274 / 0820317276
- Weight 1.72 lbs (0.78 kg)
- Dimensions 9.32 x 6.37 x 1.36 in (23.67 x 16.18 x 3.45 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: Georgia
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Georgia - Social life and customs, Georgia - History - 1775-1865
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 94040961
- Dewey Decimal Code 975.803
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