Subject:  MSR Life on the Old Plantation
Author:  Rev. Irving E. Lowery
Uploaded By:  HOST Comp Joots
Date:  2/23/2002

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Keywords:  Life on the Old Plantation in Ante-Bellum Days OR A Story Based on Facts: Rev. Irving E. Lowery Autobiography Black History 

I have written this book because there is no other work in
existence just like it. No author, white or colored, so far as I know,
has traversed, or attempted to traverse, the literary path which I
presume to have trodden in writing this book. We are now about
forty-five years away from the last days of slavery and the first
days of freedom, and the people who have any personal knowledge
of those days are rapidly crossing the mystic river, and entering the
land that knows no shadows; and soon, there will not be one left to
tell the story. And it is the author's thought that a record of the
better life of those days should be left for the good of the future
generations of this beautiful southland. Others have written of the
evil side of those days, but the author felt it to be his mission to
write of the better side.

Before the war, the relation that existed between the master and
his slaves was, in most cases, one of tenderness and affection.
There was a mutual attachment between them, which has
commanded the admiration of the world. But since the war, an
estrangement between the colored and the white races has sprung
up, which  has resulted in a feeling of intense bitterness and
alienation. But I am glad to say that things are now taking a turn
for the better. I can see signs of a better day ahead; and if this book
should, in any way, contribute to, and help on this much desired
day, the author will be satisfied.