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DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN SOUTH:
The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
ONLINE BOOK:
"Memorials of a Southern Planter,"
By Susan DABNEY Smedes (1840-1913)
http://docsouth.unc.edu/smedes/menu.html
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Overview:
"SMEDES, Susan Dabney, author, born in Raymond, Mississippi,
10 August, 1840. She is the daughter of Thomas S. Dabney, a rich planter,
and was educated at home, at New Orleans, and at Jackson, Miss.
When twenty years of age she married Lyell Smedes, but was left a widow
about three months afterward. With her sisters she originated and supported the Bishop Green training-school at Dry Grove, Mississippi In 1887 she was appointed
a teacher in the Government Indian school in Rosebud agency, Dakota territory.
She has published "Memorials of a Southern Planter,"
which conveys a graphic picture of southern plantation life at its best, and of slavery in its least repulsive aspect (Baltimore, 1887)...."
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