- Collection:
- Ebenezer Kellogg Diary
- Title:
- Ebenezer Kellogg diary
- Creator:
- Kellogg, Ebenezer, 1789-1846
- Date of Original:
- 1817/1818
- Subject:
- Georgia--Social life and customs
Plantation life--Georgia
Rice farmers--Georgia
Slavery--Georgia--History
South Carolina--Social life and customs--19th century
Williams College--Faculty - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
United States, South Carolina, 34.00043, -81.00009 - Medium:
- diaries
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Diary of Ebenezer Kellogg, an educator at Williams College, describing the years 1817-1818 to Chester Dewey, Professor of Mathematics. Kellogg describes his journey from Williamstown, Massachusetts to Charleston, South Carolina, Savannah, Georgia, and towns along the Georgia coast. Most of the entries pertain to Georgia and discuss the people and towns Kellogg visited. Kellogg writes about plantations and farming practices, particularly cotton and rice; and slavery, including how enslaved populations lived, their treatment, and religious instruction.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:guan_0516_harg0516-001-001
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:guan_0516_harg0516-001-001
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Box 1, Folder 1, Ebenezer Kellogg diary, ms516, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.
- Original Collection:
- Accompanying copy of A New Englander's Impressions of Georgia in 1817-1818: Extracts from the diary of Ebenezer Kellogg edited by Sidney Walter Martinis located in Special Collections Hargrett, call number LXK23 .M383n (c. 2)
- Holding Institution:
- Hargrett Library
- Rights:
-
