Caroline Merrick begins at Cottage Hall, the Louisiana plantation where she grew up, and carries her memoir through marriage, the Civil War and its aftermath in New Orleans. In later chapters she describes her work for temperance and for the enfranchisement of women, quoting the petitions she and her allies laid before Louisiana’s lawmakers.
A revealing document of a white Southern woman’s world; her nostalgic view of slavery is that of her class and time. Download the free EPUB.