{"product_id":"recollections-of-a-southern-daughter-a-memoir-by-cornelia-jones-pond-of-liberty-county-9780820320441","title":"Recollections of a Southern Daughter: A Memoir by Cornelia Jones Pond of Liberty County","description":"\u003cp\u003eRecollections of a Southern Daughter recalls life in antebellum Liberty County  Georgia  a time and place best known today through the letters of the Charles Colcock Jones family  published in the classic Children of Pride  and the letters and journals of the Roswell King  Fanny Kemble  and Joseph LeConte families. In this memoir Cornelia Jones Pond gives an eyewitness account of how the privileged life of the southern slaveholding class was destroyed by a whirlwind of change.  Ponds narrative begins in 1834  when she was born to one of the Old Souths wealthiest plantation families. It ends in 1875  when she was a forty-one-year-old ministers wife and the mother of four daughters  trying to make her way in the drastically changed post-Civil War South. She began dictating her memoir to her daughter Anne in 1899  when she was sixty-five years old  and the handwritten manuscript eventually found its way to the Midway Church Museum. This is the first unabridged edition of Ponds memoir  and it includes notes  genealogy  and an extensive introduction by Lucinda H. MacKethan.  In Recollections of a Southern Daughter Pond renders with striking immediacy and affectionate detail not only her personal past but also the tremendous upheavals of history that she witnessed firsthand. Many of the experiences recorded here parallel those depicted in Children of Pride  thus extending our knowledge of the people of this region  their values  their everyday concerns  and the national drama that engulfed their families in the years of civil war.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45648051273781,"sku":"ByrdShop_0820320447","price":31.84,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780820320441.jpg?v=1781707965","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/recollections-of-a-southern-daughter-a-memoir-by-cornelia-jones-pond-of-liberty-county-9780820320441","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}