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The work collects nostalgic vignettes and recollections of childhood on a Southern plantation, centering on three young sisters cared for by enslaved people who act as storytellers, playmates, and domestic guardians. It interweaves playful episodes, local games, hymns, folktales told in dialect, and short moral tales, alongside scenes of everyday domestic routine and seasonal celebrations. A prefatory voice states the author's aim to preserve oral traditions rather than to debate institutions, producing an intimate, selective portrait of relationships, authority, and communal ritual that shaped childhood within the plantation household.

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Title: Diddie, Dumps, and Tot; Or, Plantation Child-Life

Author: Louise Clarke Pyrnelle

Release date: January 1, 2004 [eBook #4992]
Most recently updated: June 15, 2021

Language: English

Credits: Jim Weiler, xooqi.com

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Diddie, Dumps, and Tot

OR

PLANTATION CHILD-LIFE

by Louise-Clarke Pyrnelle

GROSSET & DUNLAP

PUBLISHERS NEW YORK

By arrangement with Harper & Brothers

COPYRIGHT, 1882, BY HARPER & BROTHERS

COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY MARY C. MOTLEY

Printed in the United States of America

Contents

PREFACE
CHAPTER I. DIDDIE, DUMPS, AND TOT
CHAPTER II. CHRISTMAS ON THE OLD PLANTATION
CHAPTER III. MAMMY’S STORY
CHAPTER IV. OLD BILLY
CHAPTER V. DIDDIE’S BOOK
CHAPTER VI. UNCLE SNAKE-BIT BOB’S SUNDAY-SCHOOL
CHAPTER VII. POOR ANN
CHAPTER VIII. UNCLE BOB’S PROPOSITION
CHAPTER IX. AUNT EDY’S STORY
CHAPTER X. PLANTATION GAMES
CHAPTER XI. DIDDIE IN TROUBLE
CHAPTER XII. HOW THE WOODPECKER’S HEAD AND THE ROBIN’S BREAST CAME TO BE RED
CHAPTER XIII. A PLANTATION MEETING, AND UNCLE DANIEL’S SERMON
CHAPTER XIV. DIDDIE AND DUMPS GO VISITING
CHAPTER XV. THE FOURTH OF JULY
CHAPTER XVI. “’STRUCK’N UV DE CHIL’EN”
CHAPTER XVII. WHAT BECAME OF THEM