Did all those people live in that house???
I would hate to see the condition of the slaves house.
Poor Michelle. She couldn’t even been kin to high class society rich plantation owners.
Is all of this suppose to make her sympathetic to the middle class as she squanders our money???
Losing the Civil War was an unmitigated disaster of truly Biblical proportions throughout the Souf'.
Unlike pictures of former Union soldiers and their families in that same time period (like a whole big bunch of them I have), this Souvrn' family could no longer afford firearms ~ least not so's they'd have them hanging on the waste, leaning across an elbow, of lying along a log ~
Where are the leather belts? When they slaughtered hogs were they eating the whole thing? In the North you'd see leather ~ much of it from cowhide but a lot of it from pigskin all over the place. They do seem to have serviceable workboots ~ of local make.
The wealth is different from that of the North but we don't know by looking who owns the land and who does the tenant farmer trick. Or, maybe these folks cut trees and blend whiskey.
Now, the shack, that's a pretty good one. I've seen similar ones burning down in Northern Alabama after the family moved out ~ and that was 80 years later ~ so the materials did meet thetest of time ~ it's that main crossbeam ~ unseasoned timber ~ probably a couple of jacktar pine logs up there. Plenty of flex for the occasional hurricanes.
No problem. All they needed was an eight holer out back.