A New Reader of the Old South: Major Stories, Tales, Slave Narratives, Diaries, Travelogues, Poetry and Songs, 1820-1920The 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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Lastly , were the slaves , who performed all common labor , but were relieved from the cares of life , and from the perils and privations of war . We can see in such society all the elements of social order , and of social happiness ...
Lastly , were the slaves , who performed all common labor , but were relieved from the cares of life , and from the perils and privations of war . We can see in such society all the elements of social order , and of social happiness ...
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These are all heavy charges on slave labor . Hence , in all countries where the denseness of the population has reduced it to a matter of perfect certainty , that labor can be obtained , whenever wanted , and the laborer be forced ...
These are all heavy charges on slave labor . Hence , in all countries where the denseness of the population has reduced it to a matter of perfect certainty , that labor can be obtained , whenever wanted , and the laborer be forced ...
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labor upon a fair and proper basis . All were unanimous in their testimony as to the superiority of free over slave labor , but all asserted that it was attended with so many drawbacks and vexations that they feared it would end in the ...
labor upon a fair and proper basis . All were unanimous in their testimony as to the superiority of free over slave labor , but all asserted that it was attended with so many drawbacks and vexations that they feared it would end in the ...
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