Life on a plantation must have been extremely lonely, but no different, I suppose, from agrarian life wherever farms embraced large tracts of land.
As you know, families that owned plantations near New Orleans, like the Mary Plantation, tended to spend the winters in the city, which gave them a social advantage over folks on more remote plantations.
Life on a plantation must have been extremely lonely, but no different, I suppose, from agrarian life wherever farms embraced large tracts of land.
As you know, families that owned plantations near New Orleans, like the Mary Plantation, tended to spend the winters in the city, which gave them a social advantage over folks on more remote plantations.