Plantation Life in the South - A Picture of Comfort

Title

Plantation Life in the South - A Picture of Comfort

Subject

Slavery

Description

Article, based on an account printed in the Philadelphia Ledger, makes the case that, contrary to the "lies" told by Northerners, black slaves are actually well taken care of on the plantations of their Southern masters and that plantation life is even pleasant in some ways. Seems to justify slavery as a benign force in the South.

Abstract

Article based on an account from an Alabama man detailing the typical life of a slave in the South. Goes on to compare plantation conditions favorably to the situation of European/white laborers on that Continent.

Political briefs on the same page talk about the secession movement gaining steam in the South and actions by Lincoln regarding fugitive slaves.

The significance of this article in the Pioneer and Democrat is the ambivalence about race and slave that the newspaper both led and followed among Democrats in Washington Territory, in these months just following the presidential election of 1860.

Creator

unsigned

Source

Pioneer and Democrat

Publisher

Olympia: Edward Furste

Date Issued

1860-11-23

Medium

Web

Type

newspaper

Bibliographic Citation

Vol. 9, No. 1. col. F

Provenance

http://www.sos.wa.gov/

URL

http://www.sos.wa.gov/history/images/newspapers/SL_dir_olympiapiondemo/pdf/SL_dir_olympiapiondemo_11231860.pdf

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