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Susan B. Eppes provides her views on plantation life of the Old South in what she terms as a "Period History." Topics include enslaved persons and their transition to freedom post-Civil War, plantation life, the fall of the Old South, Eppes's personal anecdotes with enslaved persons, and romanticized views of the South.