CSPAN2 Book TV February 10, 2013
Thank you all for coming out this evening. And without further ado let me get right into this. Decades after the civil war ended, katherine stone, then you see on the screen, published her memoirs of which she called the gate, busy life that she and her wealthy slaveowning family had fled on their 1200acre plantation in prewar louisiana. The members of her family, she recalled, these are her words, there was always something going on, formal dining, spend a day, evening parties, fox hunts, and to assist with these and other diversions, katherine added, her family had come again her words, quit...