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This reminiscence of daily life on a Southern plantation during the
Civil War was originally published in 1888. The book is filled with
vivid details of everything from methods of making dyes and
preparing foods to race relations and the effects of the war. A
Blockaded Family is an unusual and beautifully-written primary
source of Southern life inside the blockade, told from a point of
view that is decidedly different from most post-war accounts.
Contents Include: Beginnings of the Secession Movement A Negro
Wedding Devices Rendered Necessary by the Blockade How the South
Met a Great Emergency War Time Scenes on an Alabama Plantation
Southern Women Their Ingenuity and Courage How Cloth was Dyed How
Shoes, Thread, Hats and Bonnets Were Manufactured Homespun Dresses
Home-Made Buttons and Pasteboard Uncle Ben Aunt Phillis and her
Domestic Trials Knitting around the Fireside Tramp, Tramp of the
Spinners Weaving Heavy Cloth Expensive Prints "Blood Will Tell"
Substitutes for Coffee Raspberry-Leaf Tea Home-Made Starch Putty,
and Cement Spinning Bees Old-Time Hoopskirts How the Slaves Lived
Their Barbecues Painful Realities of Civil Strife Straitened
Condition of the South Treatment of Prisoners Homespun Weddings A
Pathetic Incident Approach of the Northern Army Pillage and Plunder
"Papa's Fine Stock" The South Overrun by Soldiers Return of the
Vanquished Poverty of the Confederates Repairing Damages A Mother
made Happy
A memorable and fascinating glimpse into the Civil War home front.
Parthenia Hague experienced the Civil War while employed as a
schoolteacher on a plantation near Eufaula, Alabama. This book
recounts how a frightened and war-weary household dealt with
privations during the blockade imposed on the South by the federal
navy. The memoir of Parthenia Hague is a detailed look at the
ingenious industry and self-sufficiency employed by anxious
citizens as the northern army closed in.
A Blockaded Family by Parthenia A. Hague is a testament to the
ingenuity, adaptability and inventiveness with which a community
cut off from outside resources resorts to fending for themselves
and utilizing natures bounty. Less about politics and more about
enduring; it contains tips on surviving and making do. From making
a coffee substitute from okra seeds, watermelon syrup for sugar
substitute, and persimmon seeds for buttons, this book captivates
the reader with timeless wisdom.
This reminiscence of daily life on a Southern plantation during the
Civil War was originally published in 1888. The book is filled with
vivid details of everything from methods of making dyes and
preparing foods to race relations and the effects of the war. A
Blockaded Family is an unusual and beautifully-written primary
source of Southern life inside the blockade, told from a point of
view that is decidedly different from most post-war accounts.
Contents Include: Beginnings of the Secession Movement A Negro
Wedding Devices Rendered Necessary by the Blockade How the South
Met a Great Emergency War Time Scenes on an Alabama Plantation
Southern Women Their Ingenuity and Courage How Cloth was Dyed How
Shoes, Thread, Hats and Bonnets Were Manufactured Homespun Dresses
Home-Made Buttons and Pasteboard Uncle Ben Aunt Phillis and her
Domestic Trials Knitting around the Fireside Tramp, Tramp of the
Spinners Weaving Heavy Cloth Expensive Prints "Blood Will Tell"
Substitutes for Coffee Raspberry
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