A New Reader of the Old South: Major Stories, Tales, Slave Narratives, Diaries, Travelogues, Poetry and Songs, 1820-1920Ben Forkner, Patrick H. Samway Peachtree Publishers, 1991 - 644 էջ The literary Canon of the old South is redefined in this remarkable companion to the highly acclaimed A Modern Southern Reader. The literary canon of the old South is redefined in this remarkable companion to the highly acclaimed A Modern Southern Reader. Editors Ben Forkner and Patrick Samway, S. J. have selected from the most original and lasting works of nineteenth-century Southern writing (1820-1920) to reflect the full range of the Southern experience. The thorough introduction illuminates the individual pieces, providing insight into the culture of the Old South, from which rose a new generation of prominent, American writers. Features the work of Kate Chopin, Frederick Douglass, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Ellen Glasgow, Henry Grady, Joel Chandler Harris, Thomas Jefferson, James Weldon Johnson, Sidney Lanier, Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, Edgar Allen Poe, Mark Twain, and many others. |
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... cotton on both sides , throwing the furrow from it . Slaves follow with their hoes , cutting up the grass and cotton , leaving hills two feet and a half apart . This is called scraping cotton . In two weeks more commences the second ...
... cotton on both sides , throwing the furrow from it . Slaves follow with their hoes , cutting up the grass and cotton , leaving hills two feet and a half apart . This is called scraping cotton . In two weeks more commences the second ...
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... cotton grows from five to seven feet high , each stalk having a great many branches , shooting out in all directions , and lapping each other above the water furrow . There are few sights more pleasant to the eye , than a wide cotton ...
... cotton grows from five to seven feet high , each stalk having a great many branches , shooting out in all directions , and lapping each other above the water furrow . There are few sights more pleasant to the eye , than a wide cotton ...
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... cotton dai are carried either in wagons or in baskets , There , if the cotton is damp , it is dried in the sun , and then the fibre is separated from the seed , to which it is quite firmly attached . Nothing can be simpler or more ...
... cotton dai are carried either in wagons or in baskets , There , if the cotton is damp , it is dried in the sun , and then the fibre is separated from the seed , to which it is quite firmly attached . Nothing can be simpler or more ...
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A Plantation Echo | 106 |
The Edisto Raftsman | 122 |
Selections from Slave Narratives and Diaries | 131 |
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