Life on a Plantation

by Bobbie Kalman

Book Overview

The era of the southern plantation was a time when many wealthy "planters" lived in grand style next door to the slaves who helped them achieve it. Life on a Plantation introduces children to the daily routine of a plantation and compares the daily lives of both masters and slaves explaining their roles and duties. Slavery is shown in the context of day-to-day work. Young readers will learn about: - life in the "Big House" and in the slave quarters...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0865054657
• ISBN13: 9780865054653
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: Crabtree Classics
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.6" x 10.5"
• Age Range: 8 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 6

Customer Reviews

Excellent Book!

This book is intended to help an older elementary student understand the life on a Southern Plantation approximately around the 1850's. It does focus on the plantation owners but mostly on the running of the plantation through slavery. It does a very good job at teaching a student about that topic. I will use this also to teach my older ESOL students learning American History.

An Excellent Nonfiction Book with Details about Plantations!

I am a writer of historical fiction, and I absolutely rely on Bobbie Kalman's wonderful nonfiction books. This one even shows the layout of a plantation with neatly drawn illustrations of the Quarters and the various houses or work areas where all goods were made. B. Kalman's books are excellent for individuals as well as teachers to use with their classrooms. I recommend the Dear America and My Name is America series as well as the books by K.J. McWilliams (The Diary of a Slave Girl, Ruby Jo, The Journal of Leroy Jones, a Fugitive Slave, and The Journal of Darien Duff, an Emancipated Slave.)