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Life on a Plantation (Historic Communities) Paperback – October 31, 1996
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- Reading age8 - 11 years
- Print length32 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Grade level1 - 6
- Lexile measure920L
- Dimensions8.5 x 0.25 x 11 inches
- PublisherCrabtree Classics
- Publication dateOctober 31, 1996
- ISBN-100865054657
- ISBN-13978-0865054653
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- Publisher : Crabtree Classics (October 31, 1996)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 32 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0865054657
- ISBN-13 : 978-0865054653
- Reading age : 8 - 11 years
- Lexile measure : 920L
- Grade level : 1 - 6
- Item Weight : 5.6 ounces
- Dimensions : 8.5 x 0.25 x 11 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,363,196 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,193 in Children's Farm Life Books
- #1,745 in Children's Jobs & Careers Reference Books
- #2,150 in Children's Books on the U.S.
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If you are interested in the plantation owners lives, then I do not recommend this book to you. It has maybe 1 or 2 pages about plantation owners and their families. It does include a basic overview of plantation life for slaves, but I found it to be uninteresting. Also, most, if not all of the photos in the book are not actual photos from the 1800s.
If you are looking for a book about the plantation mistress' life, then I recommend "The Plantation Mistress: Woman's World in the Old South" by Catherine Clinton. So far, I have not discovered a very good book regarding the lives of plantation families, so unfortunatly I have no recommendations for you. I haven't really read any books specifically on slavery, but I would recommend "Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South" by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese. If you like Babbie Kalman books, "The Victorian Home" is a GREAT book that includes the basics and details about old victorian homes.
The text may be helpful to children writing reports but I would not recommend this as a resource. If it comes home from the library, I can only hope that an adult is standing by to explain that these photos are of actors playing sanitized roles for the camera.