Lyddy: A Tale of the Old South is a fictional reconstruction of
antebellum life in the historic Midway community of Liberty County,
Georgia, home of some of the Old South's wealthiest planters.
Originally published in 1898, this blend of fiction and memoir
looks through the eyes of a white plantation mistress at her family
plantation, her marriage, slave life, and the destruction of the
plantation economy that took place when Sherman's army arrived in
December 1864. Writing in response to Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle
Tom's Cabin, Eugenia J. Bacon sought to represent plantation life
as she had experienced it. Bacon's story provides a window on slave
marriages, the retention of African folklore among coastal Georgia
slaves, and the change in relations between masters and slaves
after the Civil War. Lucinda H. MacKethan's extensive introduction
explores the interwoven contexts of race, class, and gender that
make this novel an interesting lens through which to view the
complex human relationships that constituted plantation society in
the Old South.
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