Memorials Of A Southern Planter Tsg Dabney

Biography of Thomas Smith Gregory Dabney (1798-1885) of King and Queen County, Virginia. His ancestors were French Huguenots of the name of "d'Aubigne," and the surname had various spellings before it became Dabney. Thomas married twice, lived first in Gloucester County, Virginia, and in 1835 moved to Hinds County, Mississippi, where he had a large cotton plantation. When the Civil War ended, he became a vegetable farmer, selling fresh produce to New Orleans. In 1882, he retired and moved to Baltimore to live with a daughter and her family.

Hardcover reprint of the original 1888 edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9. No adjustments have been made to the original text, giving readers the full antiquarian experience. For quality purposes, all text and images are printed as black and white. This item is printed on demand. Book Information: Smedes, Susan Dabney. Memorials of A Southern Planter. Indiana: Repressed Publishing LLC, 2012. Original Publishing: Smedes, Susan Dabney. Memorials of A Southern Planter, . Baltimore, Cushings & Bailey, 1888. Subject: Dabney, Thomas Smith Gregory, 1798-1885

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries offer access to the full text of "Memorials of a Southern Planter," written by Susan Dabney Smedes (1840-1913). Cushings and Bailey in Baltimore, Maryland, published the book in 1887. The libraries provide the text as part of the Documenting the American South (DAS) collection on Southern history.

Excerpt from A Southern Planter The materials for these memorials were collected a few weeks after the death of my father. There was no thought then of having them made public. They were gotten together that the memory and example of his life should not pass away from his grandchildren, many of whom are yet too young to appreciate his character. They will come to mature years in a time when slavery will be a thing of the past. They will hear much of the wickedness of slavery and of slave-owners. I wish them to learn of a good master: of one who cared for his servants affectionately and yet with a firm hand, when there was need, and with a full sense of his responsibility. There were many like him. Self-interest - one might, with truth, say self-protection - was with most masters a sufficient incentive to kindness to slaves, when there was no higher motive. My father was so well assured of the contentment and well-being of his slaves, while he owned them, and saw so much of their suffering, which he was not able to relieve after they were freed, that he did not, for many years, believe that it was better for them to be free than held as slaves. But during the last winter of his life he expressed the opinion that it was well for them to have their freedom. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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