Description
A Lady Rice Planter offers insights into a broad spectrum of Southern life after the Civil War. As an account of a girl’s struggle for survival and dignity in a distinctly male-dominated society, it contributes considerably to girls’s history. For observers of the black enjoy, it affords opinionated, but however revealing, views about African American folklife. It presents a wealthy portrait of a particular place–the South Carolina Low Country–in a troubled and normally undocumented time, a portrait made all of the more vivid by the fine pen-and-ink sketches of Charleston artist Alice R. Huger Smith.