May 2012

A Diary From Dixie

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A Diary From Dixie by Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut.

May 29th.–Betsey, recalcitrant maid of the W.’s, has been sold to a telegraph man. She is as handsome as a mulatto ever gets to be, and clever in every kind of work. My Molly thinks her mistress “very lucky in getting rid of her.” She was “a dangerous inmate,” but she will be a good [...]