![]() ![]() White population was conquered, ruined, and disheartened, unable for the moment to see anything but ruin before as well as behind, too wedded to the fancied prosperity of the old system to believe in any possible success under the new. The changes that a four years' war must bring about in any country would alone have been enough to give a different aspect to everything but at the South, besides the changes brought about by the war, our slaves had been freed the ![]() The whole country had of course undergone a complete revolution. ![]() THE year after the war between the North and the South, I went to the South with my father to look after our property in Georgia and see what could be done with it. The sadness of defeat, resentment toward military occupation and uncertain adjustment to a new economic, political and social system are all seen in this passionate description of Reconstruction Georgia. Leigh viewed her former slaves with mingled affection and exasperation and believed they were inferior as well as unprepared for full citizenship-opinions doubly interesting for having been written by a Yankee. In 1866, Frances Butler Leigh returned to Georgia to help her father reclaim his family plantations on the Georgia coast, and she continued to manage them for ten years-a woman struggling to survive in a man's world. FULL TITLE: TEN YEARS ON A GEORGIA PLANTATION SINCE THE WAR ![]()
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