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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... hold out if England and France hold off ? ” cries Mem . " No - our time has come . " " For shame - faint heart . " Oratorically : " Our people are brave , our cause just , our spirit and our patient endurance beyond reproach , but ...
... hold out if England and France hold off ? ” cries Mem . " No - our time has come . " " For shame - faint heart . " Oratorically : " Our people are brave , our cause just , our spirit and our patient endurance beyond reproach , but ...
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... hold of him , take hold of him ! " Bill said his master hired him out to work , and not to help to whip me ; so he left Covey and myself to fight our own battle out . We were at it for nearly two hours . Covey at length let me go ...
... hold of him , take hold of him ! " Bill said his master hired him out to work , and not to help to whip me ; so he left Covey and myself to fight our own battle out . We were at it for nearly two hours . Covey at length let me go ...
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... hold property in man . The answer is , that he can and actually does hold property in his fellow all the world over , in a variety of forms , and has always done so . I will show presently his authority for doing it . If you were to ask ...
... hold property in man . The answer is , that he can and actually does hold property in his fellow all the world over , in a variety of forms , and has always done so . I will show presently his authority for doing it . If you were to ask ...
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A Plantation Echo | 106 |
The Edisto Raftsman | 122 |
Selections from Slave Narratives and Diaries | 131 |
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