Check out my latest YouTube video – just a quick bit about Francis Butler Leigh and her time on her Georgia plantation after the war. You can even see her book online at the link below.

Abstract: Francis Butler Leigh was a plantation owner and former slave owner who wrote a book about her experiences after the war. She discusses her life as well as the former slaves lives and what they were going through, and then I take a look at a study on slave owning vs. non-slave owning wealthy families and how their wealth changed after emancipation. The results of the study were a bit shocking.

Bibliography

Ager, Philipp, Leah Platt Boustan, and Katherine Eriksson. “The Intergenerational Effects of a Large Wealth Stock: White Southerners After the Civil War.” National Bureau of Economic Research, (September 2019).

Danbom, David B. Sod Busting: How Families Made Farms on the Nineteenth-Century Plains. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.

Leigh, Francis Butler. Ten Years on a Georgia Plantation Since the War. London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1883, https://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/leigh/leigh.html.