This book is a memoir of David Brown, a northerner who owned a plantation in the southern United States during the mid-19th century. It provides a firsthand account of life in the antebellum South, including the institution of slavery and the social and economic divisions of the time. The book offers a unique perspective on a turbulent period in American history.

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