cover image Woman Rice Planter

Woman Rice Planter

Elizabeth Allston Pringle, Patience Pennington. University of South Carolina Press, $19.95 (512pp) ISBN 978-0-87249-826-6

Written by a white woman in post-Civil War South Carolina, this portrait offers opinions of male-dominated society, former slaves and the first generation of free-born African-Americans. Illustrated. (Apr.)