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Title	Zenas Preston Diary
Description	Diary kept by plantation owner Zenas Preston from 1850-1853. Preston's plantation, Leftwich, was situated on Lake St. Peter in Tensas Parish, Louisiana, and Preston describes frequent trips to Waterproof, Saint Joseph, and Natchez via the steamboats on the Mississippi River. The diary includes details about levees and flooding in the parish, planting concerns, and details about the births, illnesses, and deaths of his slaves.
Digital ID#	Diary
Physical ID	252-02
Object Type	text
Creator	Preston, Zenas
Contributors	A digitization project sponsored by the Consortium for the History of Agricultural and Rural Mississippi (CHARM).
Subject	Tensas Parish (La.)--History. Natchez (Miss.)--History. Waterproof (La.)--History. Saint Joseph (La.)--History. Plantation life--Louisiana--History--19th century. Slavery--United States--History--19th century. Levees--Louisiana. Levees--Maintenance and repair. Diaries. Steamboats--Mississippi River--History. Cotton--1850-1860.
Geographic location	Tensas Parish (La.)
Date (original)	1850-01-13
Date	January 13, 1850
Time period	1850-1859
Original Collection	Preston (Zenas) Papers
Publisher	Mississippi State University Libraries (electronic version).
Rights	Copyright protected by Mississippi State University Libraries. Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required.
Format (original)	document: 305 p. 31 x 19 cm.
Format (digital)	JPEG
Repository	Manuscripts Division, Special Collections Department, Mississippi State University Libraries.
Location of Original	Zenas Preston Diary
Language	en
Contact information	For more information send email to sp_coll@library.msstate.edu or call 662-325-7679.
facet format	document
Collection Title	Zenas Preston diary

Digital ID#	252-02-000
Object Type	text
Contributors	A digitization project sponsored by the Consortium for the History of Agricultural and Rural Mississippi (CHARM).
Time period	1850-1859
Format (digital)	JPEG
Contact information	For more information send email to sp_coll@library.msstate.edu or call 662-325-7679.

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