The Real Life of a PLANTATION OWNER'S WIFE by Dr Ann Dupont

[@robbinbruno2320]

That was absolutely wonderful!! Love Dr. DuPonts presentation!!!! Wow those women were incredible!! How they could accomplish those Herculean tasks is unbelievably gigantic!

[@bonnabrimhall8080]

Extremely interesting and well prepared presentation. I absolutely love learning history that has not been “watered down”. As a teenage in high school I never found history interesting, but as I grew older and discovered “real” history, I have fallen in love with it. This presentation is the “real” history that I find fascinating. Thank you for posting this!!

[@theresamultistan4549]

We are never too old to learn and today I learned so much. Thank you.

[@abigailmackenziecarp]

May we keep up the spirit and dedication of those wonderful ladies ❤

[@KentuckyGirl]

More of these wonderful lectures, please.🥰

[@tristazerbe8119]

This was wonderful. I knew a lot of this, and it’s the reason my eyes roll so hard when I hear life in the south being romanticized.

[@pamhutzell8268]

I loved her talk! I loved her voice too!!🎉

[@southernbellekari]

What a FANTASTIC educational talk !!! I would have loved to have been there. THIS is what we need, this is REAL history. I have an obsession with reading war time diaries by the women that lived them. The diary of Emma Balfour from Vicksburg is my favorite. The bluntness sometimes will shock you, but the lack of sugar coating is what is needed to understand that place in time instead of commercialized tunnel vision. I really hope we get to hear more from Dr. Dupont! ❤❤❤

[@leadepp4047]

Very interesting history. Thank you.

[@judyhall8269]

I deeply enjoyed this talk. Thank you for sharing.

[@dawnsuntken1080]

Thank you for sharing this.

[@kellyhensley7346]

Absolutely wonderful history!

[@YulyBigott]

Hermosa Historia para educar y Compartir ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@Spookyboi1893]

Love this!

[@tcd246]

Thanks for sharing

[@amiestew]

My Ancestor Dr EE Kittridge had Coolies on his sugar plantation Elm Hall on bayou Lafourche , La

[@kimberleyannedemong5621]

Very interesting video. I thoroughly enjoyed it. But I must say Vicksburg didn't fall on January 4. Vicksburg fell on July 4 1863. Hopefully she only misspoke.

[@OurRestorationNation]

I’m sure Dr DuPont with her PhD just misspoke as one can do when speaking extemporaneously on a broad, intricate subject in front of a large crowd

[@LisaTheisen-j8j]

When the speaker refers to the plantiation wife being a supervisor of a community of people is she referencing slaves ?

[@aloysiusdevanderabercrombi470]

No

[@OurRestorationNation]

Obviously yes, along with her own family, and generally the families of small farmers who lived within close proximity to her own home

[@LisaTheisen-j8j]

I am curious why the speaker went out of her way not to use the word slave.

[@ridingtheroad185]

anyone who is lower in status than them usually.

[@OurRestorationNation]

Because the word “slave” is a dehumanizing word. It reduces the individual to their condition rather than acknowledging their personhood. Dr. DuPont is part of the scholarly community that works hard to teach that words have meaning and power. To use the politically incorrect term “slave” when referring to a person is passé. One would, at worst, use “enslaved” but that too is minimizing their humanity. The word “community” is appropriate as the definition is “a group of people living in the same place OR having a particular characteristic in common”. Obviously these people lived in the same place, and their particular characteristic would be their enslavement, but using “community” allows them to be recognized as people rather than merely as enslaved persons or property.