---
title: 'In “Dixie”'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Gardiner Spring Plumley'
date: 1864-07-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Race Relations and Slavery'
- 'United States'
- 'History (General)'
scriptures:
- 'Exodus 21'
- 'Romans 13'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/plumley-1864-in-dixie
---

# In “Dixie”

First-person 1861 Southern account of plantation prosperity built on slavery, rising secessionist sentiment, and the wartime shortages, social upheaval, and delusion that followed.

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