- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- On the Plantation
- Creator:
- Rohrer, Katherine E.
- Date of Original:
- 2010-04-09
- Subject:
- Plantation life--Fiction
Georgia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Fiction
Boys--Fiction - People:
- Harris, Joel Chandler, 1848-1908. On the plantation
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Description:
- Encyclopedia article about On the Plantation: A Story of a Georgia Boy's Adventures during the War (1892), written by famed New South journalist and folklorist Joel Chandler Harris. It is a fictionalized memoir of Harris's adolescence during the Civil War (1861-65). It is both an idealized portrait of plantation life on Turnwold, the estate of Joseph Addison Turner in Eatonton (Putnam County), and a sanitized treatment of the war. Purchased by publisher S. S. McClure in New York for $2,500, the narrative was first serialized in several national newspapers, beginning in 1891. A year later On the Plantation appeared as a book published by D. Appleton and Company, the same firm that had published Harris's first volume of Uncle Remus stories. On the Plantation never achieved the popularity or critical acclaim of the Uncle Remus folktales, however, and most scholars subsequently ignored it.
- Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/on-the-plantation/
- Language:
- eng
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- Original Collection:
- Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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