Dairies of nineteenth-century plantation managers are rare; diaries of French sugar planters are rarer still. All though such works as the diaries of Ella Gertrude Thomas and James Henry Hammond provide insight into the plantation societies of the antebellum South, virtually no contemporary source treats planters as extensively, or presents a white planters views on slave society in as much detail, as do the letters and diary of Pierre Dessalles. | Sugar and Slavery Family and Race by Pierre Dasalles, Paperback | Indigo Chapters