The Plantation Mistress is written by Catherine Clinton. Her purpose of writing is to inform readers the chaotic lives of the white female gender in the slave society before the Civil War. Clinton goes into specific detail describing the situations that southern women endured every day. She collected memoirs and diaries of actual planter wives and daughters. These confessions magnify the reality of trials and tribulations during a dark time in American History. Furthermore, there …showed first 75 words of 992 total…

…showed last 75 words of 992 total…the south would cease to prosper and function properly. On top of that, Catherine Clinton brings these forgotten females back to reality. She is the concrete voice, speaking on behalf of the many plantation mistresses of long ago. There is more to United States History than great wars, presidential elections, and treacherous voyages. It is also about daily life, and Catherine Clinton brings the daily life of plantation mistresses to touch the lives of today.