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PublisherArcadia Publishing

ISBN-101565544366

ISBN-139781565544369

eBay Product ID (ePID)102926996

Product Key Features

Book TitlePlantation Life on the Mississippi

Number of Pages234 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicUnited States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV)

Publication Year2000

IllustratorYes

GenreHistory

AuthorW. Clement

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight14.4 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Number of Volumes1 vol.

Dewey Decimal976.344

SynopsisThe steamboat illustrated on the front of this jacket cover is the famous Princess, one of the finest afloat on the Mississippi River one hundred years ago. In 1852 as she was rounding the bend at Duncan's Point (shown on the endpaper map and now called Conrad's Point) about ten miles below Baton Rouge, the boilers exploded with a frightful loss of life. The disaster occurred in front of the Conrad "cottage" where a descendant, the late G. Mather Conrad, of New Orleans, was born and lived as a youth. The "cottage," much written of, was burned recently., One day in 1852, The Princess , one of the finest steamboats afloat on the Mississippi River one hundred years ago was rounding the bend a Duncanis Point about ten miles below Baton Rouge, when the boilers exploded with a frightful loss of life. The disaster occurred in front of the Conrad cottage where a descendant, the late G. Mather Conrad, of New Orleans, was born and lived as a youth. Lyle Saxon in his Old Louisiana tells of having known an old gentleman who remembered the awful holocaust. Then a little boy, this old gentleman was awaiting the return of his mother and father from New Orleans. He saw the Princess come around the bend and then turn in toward the bank. As he watched he heard a terrific explosion and saw the steamboat burst into flames. Mr. F. D. Conrad, plantation owner of that generation, so Saxon tells us, sent his slaves out in skiffs to rescue the men and women who crew struggling in the water. Many of them were frightfully scalded by steam from the broken boilers. Sheets were spread on the ground under the oak trees on the lawn and barrels of flour were broken open and the contents poured on the sheets. As the scalded people were pulled from the river, they were stripped and rolled in the flour, where they writhed and shrieked in agony. The little boy went from one sufferer to another seeking his father and mother. They were not there. They returned from New Orleans on a later boat, but he never forgot the anguish of his search., One day in 1852, The Princess, one of the finest steamboats afloat on the Mississippi River one hundred years ago was rounding the bend a Duncan's Point about ten miles below Baton Rouge, when the boilers exploded with a frightful loss of life.