Ended, katherine stone, who do you on the screen, published her memoirs of which he called the easy life that she, her wealthy slave owning family have led under 1200acre plantation in prewar louisiana. For members of her family, she recalled there was always something going on. Dark. The stone familys life of, again her words, luxurious ease, some 150 enslaved human beings toiled in the plantations cotton and cane fields. Six days a week, week after week, month after month, year after year. The civil wars outbreak in april of 1861 signaled the beginning of the end of the stone familys accustomed wealth and comfort. Katherine was soon confiding to her diary the fighting between north and south infected slaves with the hope of radical change in their condition. They were, therefore, she said, becoming lazy and disobedient, and they were giving a lot of trouble, her words again, generally. And one evening as katherine and her relatives sat on the veranda of their plantation home, someone