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Elizabeth Waties Allston Pringle, 1845-1921 and Alice R. Huger Smith (Alice Ravenel Huger), b. 1876, Illustrated by
A Woman Rice Planter.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1914, c1913.

"You see a stack of rice approaching, and you perceive a pair of
legs, or a skirt, as the case may be, peeping from beneath."

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Illustration

Subjects:
  • Slaves--South Carolina.
  • Rice plantations--South Carolina.