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This text aims to offer an insight into the lives of the Old South's free women of colour. The letters, from family members and friends, were written between 1844 and 1899 to Ann Battles Johnson, wife of Natchez businessman William T. Johnson, while her granddaughter, Catherine, wrote the diary.

As the wife of a frequently absent slaveholder and public figure, Anna Matilda Page King (1798-1859) was the de facto head of their Sea Island plantation. This volume collects more than 150 of her letters to her husband, children, parents and others, reflecting her everyday life.