A Girl's Life in Virginia before the War - Letitia M. Burwell

WITH SIXTEEN FULL-PAGE
ILLUSTRATIONS BY

William A. McCullough AND Jules Turcas

Second Edition

New York
FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

DEDICATION.

Dedicated to my nieces, who will find in English and American publications such expressions applied to their ancestors as: "cruel slave-owners"; "inhuman wretches"; "southern taskmasters"; "dealers in human souls," etc. From these they will naturally recoil with horror. My own life would have been embittered had I believed myself to be descended from such monsters; and that those who come after us may know the truth, I wish to leave a record of plantation life as it was. The truth may thus be preserved among a few, and merited praise may be awarded to noble men and virtuous women who have passed away.

L. M. B.