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Plantation life

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Robert Livingston Clark collection

Collection Identifier: Mss:101 1840-1869 C592
Content Description: The Robert Livingston Clark collection includes four diaries kept by Alabama farmer Robert Livingston Clark from 1840-1869 with some gaps. The diary entries usually are no more than one line, unless substantial news or events took place. The subjects of Clark’s daily entries include the weather, his travels, social gatherings including dinners, festivals and celebrations, deaths of friends and family, and farm management activity including planting, harvesting, and plowing. Clark planted and...