The emphasis lay on an idealized plantation life and the happy slaves who lived there.

Information about plantation life, though, is harder to pull out of them.

His works also depict a somewhat idealized view of plantation life.

Purpose Slave gardens were an integral part of plantation life.

After graduation in 1854, he studied law, but chose instead to return to plantation life.

But there are several major additions to Mitchell's description of plantation life.

This hybrid household places the Jefferson family firmly in the mainstream of plantation life at the time.

Melanie's background isn't exactly the aristocratic plantation life she has described to Andrew and to the fashion press.

It is a representation of plantation life between 1795 and 1855.

The structures and artifacts on the property reflect plantation life from the early 17th century to the present.