This document describes the life of the wives of plantation owners, with their constant need to help in the fields, make clothes for both blacks and whites, keep everyone fed, and run the plantation with the help of overseers and slaves when their husbands were traveling. There is mention of Williamson Hawkins and his wife Betsy on page 98, with footnotes indicating manuscripts available at Samford and the Birmingham Public Library, Clement Comer Clay, Sr (served as governor of Alabama) and his wife Susanna on page 99, and Henry Watson of Greensboro and his wife Sophia on page 99.
Link to pdf: High Cotton: The Antebellum Alabama Plantation Mistress and the Cotton Culture
