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Excerpt from The Southern Woman: Past and Present
She in time became the dignified matron of the plantation, the gentle, classic, serious mother among her tall sons and radiant daughters. She was mistress, manager, doctor, nurse, counselor, seamstress, teacher, housekeeper, slave, all at once - the key stone of the domestic economy which bound all the rest of the structure and gave it its strength and beauty. Face to face with the hardships and privations of war, she was patriotic, resource ful, courageous. We associate such women, young and old, with stately columns and porticos, polished halls, family portraits, immemorial trees, and a social life notable for its charm and courtesy. 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.
