Ferry Hill Plantation Journal, January 4, 1838 to January 15, 1839

Fascinating journal of a small farm holder in Maryland in the Antebellum South. "Life at Ferry Hill was very different from that on a major staple crop plantation where the laborers worked in gangs, in routine, and under close supervision. The cultivation and harvesting of corn, wheat, barley, oats, rye, clover, hay, and potatoes; the threshing and milling of the grain; the daily feeding and care of cattle, horses, sheep and hogs, and the slaughter of animals and curing of meats; the growing, ha