Antebellum Stories

Hello my name is Adelaide Elizabeth Whitmore. In this journal I will talk about my life in the antebellum era.

For they're safety They remain unknown They remain nerds They kept on waiting For when they gonna own the night

Elizabeth Manigault has not been in the attic of her parent’s home since she was a little girl. She opens the trunk that contains the ball gown of exquisite Chinese gold...

Beth Kozera promised her best friend, Carrie Hansen, that she would stay and manage Stratton House in Carrie's absence. How she regrets that promise! Because Beth has no...

Sixteen complete strangers all living in one house, after a $250,000 prize. What could go wrong? Based off of the TV Show "Big Brother".

Melanie Hansen loved her younger sister, Carrie. But when Carrie moved to Lexington, Missouri, to restore an antebellum house and open it as an event venue, Melanie was...

Antebellum thought she was a regular teen waiting for the day when she could outrun her cruel past. But, what happens when you're thrown into a world where old bedtime s...

This was a short story that I wrote in my Fiction Writing class this past semester. I plan on revisiting this story and expanding on it in November for NaNoWriMo. Enjoy!

"Don't love someone more than yourself if you don't want to break yourself apart." Grace raise believing that motto in her life. She find it lame when someone...

Did He know he would find her there in the garden?

The historical records for Mammoth Cave in Kentucky include the poet Bayard Taylor's impressions of the Cave's most famous slave tour guide, Stephen Bishop. Did they a...

'everything was proper back then' they say. as if there was no drama. but is that true? let's read this drama packed love story.

This is my analysis of American Slavery in the Ante-Bellum based off of Frederick Douglass's experiences: specifically his autobiography 𝘔𝘺 𝘉𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘔𝘺...

Everyone carries their soul around their neck, its color representing their station in the world. You hold their sphere, you hold their soul, putting them in a temporary...