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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... hand ' em this , and hand ' em that , and even the nigger motioning me to help him with this thing and the other . He didn't say much , and always spoke in a whisper . But , it so happened , that , when I was stretching out for one of ...
... hand ' em this , and hand ' em that , and even the nigger motioning me to help him with this thing and the other . He didn't say much , and always spoke in a whisper . But , it so happened , that , when I was stretching out for one of ...
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... hand ox , and which the off - hand one . He then tied the end of a large rope around the horns of the in - hand ox , and gave me the other end of it , and told me , if the oxen started to run , that I must hold on upon the rope . I had ...
... hand ox , and which the off - hand one . He then tied the end of a large rope around the horns of the in - hand ox , and gave me the other end of it , and told me , if the oxen started to run , that I must hold on upon the rope . I had ...
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... hand has his labour for the day marked out before him , and can take his own time to do it in . For instance , in making drains in light , clean meadow land , each man or woman of the full hands is required to dig one thousand cubic ...
... hand has his labour for the day marked out before him , and can take his own time to do it in . For instance , in making drains in light , clean meadow land , each man or woman of the full hands is required to dig one thousand cubic ...
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A Plantation Echo | 106 |
The Edisto Raftsman | 122 |
Selections from Slave Narratives and Diaries | 131 |
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