Memories
Pasadena, Calif. Printed by House of Printing, (c. 1969). Presumed 1st ed. Paperback. photos, map, [8], 80, [1]p. Softcover in original gray wrapper. 25 cm. Modest cover fading. Internally sound and clean. Banks, a white Southerner, was born south of Hernando, Mississippi. Her father was a physician who also had a plantation and a saw mill in Northern Mississippi. Most interesting to us are recollections about some of the individual enslaved African Americans on pages 61-79 (Aunt Judy, Big Ann, Barbara -- The spiritual, Margaret, Daniel, Runaway Dick, Julianna Johnson, Uncle Ed Skipwith, Uncle Will and Aunt Maria, Eliza and Dave, and Austin and Austin's Ann. Blind Tom is written about at pages 79-80, apparently because: (1) he was memorable; (2) Sallie became close friends with Colonel Bethune's daughter Fannie when both were attending Wesleyan College in Macon, Ga.; and (3) she remembered seeing Blind Tom perform at the college. All in all, an uncommon memoir by a white women who had fond memories of slavery and some of the enslaved. The book was put together by Sallie Love Marston from sketches written by her elderly mother between 1932 and 1934. Very Good. Item #93698
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