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Margaret Johnson Erwin Dudley (1821-1863) was a Southern belle, planter and letter writer in the Antebellum South. The owner of Mount Holly from 1854 to 1863, she was one of the largest slaveholders in Mississippi. She freed her slaves in 1858, prior to the American Civil War. ==Early life== Margaret Johnson was born on March 4, 1821. Her father, Captain Henry Johnson, was a large landowner and slaveholder in Washington County, Mississippi. Her mother was Elizabeth Julia Flournoy. Her paternal grandfather, Robert Johnson, was a Kentucky pioneer and surveyor.〔 One of her paternal uncle, Richard Mentor Johnson, served as the ninth Vice President of the United States from 1837 to 1841, under President Martin Van Buren.〔 Her maternal grandfather, Major Matthew Flournoy, served in the Indian wars.〔Harry S. Laver, ''Citizens More Than Soldiers: The Kentucky Militia and Society in the Early Republic'', Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 2007, p. 183 ()〕 Like all Southern belles, Margaret learned to speak French fluently and studied French culture.〔Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Eugene D. Genovese, (''The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders' Worldview'' ), Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005, p. 48〕 She disapproved of the French Revolution of 1848, which overthrew King Louis Philippe's July Monarchy and established the Second French Empire led by Emperor Napoleon III.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Margaret Johnson Erwin Dudley」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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