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Lanterns on the Levee
Recollections of a Planter's Son
Häftad, 2006
353 kr
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Born and raised in Greenville, Mississippi, within the shelter of old traditions, aristocratic in the best sense, William Alexander Percy in his lifetime (1885--1942) was brought face to face with the convulsions of a changing world. Lanterns on the Levee is his memorial to the South of his youth …
Twelve Years a Slave
Av Solomon Northup, Joseph Logsdon m. fl.
Häftad, 1968
344 kr
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Solomon Northup was a free man, the son of an emancipated Negro Slave. Until the spring of 1841 he lived a simple, uneventful life with his wife and three children in Upstate New York. Then, suddenly, he fell victim to a series of bizarre events that make this one of the most amazing …
Ideology of Slavery
Proslavery Thought in the Antebellum South, 1830-1860
Häftad, 1981
344 kr
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In one volume, these essentially unabridged selections from the works of the proslavery apologists are now conveniently accessible to scholars and students of the antebellum South. The Ideology of Slavery includes excerpts by Thomas R. Dew, founder of a new phase of proslavery militancy; William …
Swallow Barn
A Novel
Häftad, 1986
384 kr
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Originally published in 1832 and revised in 1851, Swallow Barn, John Pendleton Kennedy's novel of antebellum life on a tidewater Virginia plantation, was described by its author as ""variously and interchangeably partaking of the complexion of a book of travels, a diary, a collection of letters, a …
Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi
A Series of Sketches
Häftad, 1987
384 kr
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The Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi, originally published in 1853, consists of twenty-six sketches and satires drawn from Joseph G. Baldwin's experiences as an attorney on the turbulent Mississippi and Alabama frontiers in the 1830s and 1840s. Like experiences, attempted to depict a lawless …
Invisible Empire
A Concise Review of the Epoch
Av Albion Winegar Tourgee, Albion Winegar Tourgee m. fl.
Häftad, 1989
344 kr
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The North Carolina carpetbagger Albion Winegar Tourgée came to the South in 1865 after serving as a Union volunteer during the Civil War. His struggles in the cause of civil rights led him to take part in the political reorganisation of the region. However, in 1879, Tourgée despaired of his efforts …
Macaria
Or, Altars of Sacrifice
Häftad, 1992
384 kr
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First published in 1864, Macaria; or, Altars of Sacrifice was the third novel of Augusta Jane Evans, one of the leading women writers of nineteenth-century domestic fiction. A wartime best seller, with more than twenty thousand copies in circulation in the print-starved Confederacy before the …
Beulah
A Novel
Av Augusta Jane Evans, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
Häftad, 1992
379 kr
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Augusta Jane Evans, one of the most popular domestic novelists of the latter half of the nineteenth century, was born in 1835 in Columbus, Georgia, but spent most of her life in Mobile, Alabama. She was the author of eight novels, of which Beulah, published in 1859, was the second. Like many …
Reminiscences of Confederate Service, 1861-1865
Av Francis W. Dawson, Bell Irvin Wiley
Häftad, 1993
350 kr
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First published seventeen years after the end of the Civil War, Reminiscences of Confederate Service, 1861-1865, by Francis W. Dawson, is the only memoir by a British citizen who saw active service in both the Confederate navy and army.Dawson utilises his skill as a journalist to write vivid …
Diary of Miss Emma Holmes, 1861-1866
Av Emma Holmes, John F. Marszalek
Häftad, 1994
414 kr
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Two months before the Civil War broke out, Emma Holmes made the first entry in a diary that would eventually hold vivid firsthand accounts of several major historical events. Born into an elite South Carolina family, Holmes was in her twenties during the war years. She lived in Charleston during …
Mississippi Delta and the World
The Memoirs of David L. Cohn
Inbunden, 1995
603 kr
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No one knew the Mississippi Delta more intimately or told its story more eloquently than did David L. Cohn (1894-1960). Between 1935 and 1960 he produced ten books including his best known, God Shakes Creation, later expanded into Where I Was Born and Raised -- and scores of articles and essays, …
Brokenburn
The Journal of Kate Stone, 1861-1868
Häftad, 1995
415 kr
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This journal records the Civil War experiences of a sensitive, well-educated, young southern woman. Kate Stone was twenty when the war began, living with her widowed mother, five brothers, and younger sister at Brokenburn, their plantation home in northeastern Louisiana. When Grant moved against …
Odd Leaves from the Life of a Louisiana Swamp Doctor
Häftad, 1997
379 kr
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Henry Clay Lewis (1825-1850) was one of the leading southern humorists of the nineteenth century. Born in South Carolina, he grew up in Yazoo City, Mississippi, and attended medical school in Louisville, Kentucky. After graduation Dr. Lewis practiced in a backwoods Louisiana community on the Tensas …
Bricks Without Straw
A Novel
Av Albion Winegar Tourgee, Otto H. Olsen
Häftad, 1973
384 kr
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Albion W. Tourgée, a former Union officer from Ohio, came to North Carolina in search of economic opportunity after the collapse of the Confederacy. A young man and a fearless advocate of freedmen's rights, he soon became a radical Republican leader and a prominent figure in local politics.After he …
Free Flag of Cuba
The Lost Novel of Lucy Holcombe Pickens
Av Lucy Petaway Holcomb Pickens, Orville Vernon Burton m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
344 kr
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The wife of South Carolina secessionist governor Francis W. Pickens and known as the ""Queen of the Confederacy,"" Lucy Holcombe Pickens (1832-1899) was during her lifetime one of the most famous women in the South. Rumor was that in her youth she published a novel under a pseudonym. Recently …
I'll Take My Stand
The South and the Agrarian Tradition
Häftad, 2006
384 kr
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First published in 1930, the essays in this manifesto constitute one of the outstanding cultural documents in the history of the South. In it, twelve southerners-Donald Davidson, John Gould Fletcher, Henry Blue Kline, Lyle H. Lanier, Stark Young, Allen Tate, Andrew Nelson Lytle, Herman Clarence …
Peculiar Crossroads
Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, and Catholic Vision in Postwar Southern Fiction
Av Farrell O'Gorman, Fred Hobson
Häftad, 2008
415 kr
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In Peculiar Crossroads, Farrell O'Gorman explains how the radical religiosity of both Flannery O'Connor's and Walker Percy's vision made them so valuable as southern fiction writers and social critics. Via their spiritual and philosophical concerns, O'Gorman asserts, these two unabashedly Catholic …
Drums at Dusk
A Novel
Häftad, 2009
450 kr
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A story of love, violence, and race set at the outbreak of the Haitian Revolution in 1791, African American writer Arna Bontemps's Drums at Dusk immerses readers in the opulent and brutal -- yet also very fragile -- society of France's richest colony, Saint Domingue. First published in 1939, this …
Slave Life in Virginia and Kentucky
A Narrative by Francis Fedric, Escaped Slave
Av Francis Frederick, C. L. Innes
Häftad, 2010
294 kr
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In 1854, faced with the threat of yet another brutal beating, a fifty-year-old slave in Mason County, Kentucky, decided to try again to escape. His first attempt had ended in his near starvation as he hid for nine weeks in a swamp, before hunger compelled him to return to his master. This time the …
Surveying the Early Republic
The Journal of Andrew Ellicott, U.S. Boundary Commissioner in the Old Southwest, 1796-1800
Inbunden, 2016
570 kr
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In Surveying the Early Republic, Robert D. Bush contextualises the firsthand account of Andrew Ellicott, the United States Boundary Commissioner appointed by President George Washington in 1796. Ellicott and his Spanish counterparts established the boundary line between the United States and …
Diary of a Civil War Bride
Lucy Wood Butler of Virginia
Inbunden, 2017
424 kr
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Lucy Wood Butler's diary provides a compelling account of one woman's struggle to come to terms with the realities of war on the Confederate home front. Expertly annotated and introduced by Kristen Brill, The Diary of a Civil War Bride brings to light a vital archival resource that reveals Lucy …
East Texas Family's Civil War
The Letters of Nancy and William Whatley, May-December 1862
Inbunden, 2019
471 kr
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During six months in 1862, William Jefferson Whatley and his wife, Nancy Falkaday Watkins Whatley, exchanged a series of letters that vividly demonstrate the quickly changing roles of women whose husbands left home to fight in the Civil War. When William Whatley enlisted with the Confederate Army …
Walt Whitman's New Orleans
Sidewalk Sketches and Newspaper Rambles
Av Walt Whitman, Stefan Schöberlein
Inbunden, 2022
450 kr
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Walt Whitman's short stint in New Orleans during the spring of 1848 was a crucial moment of literary and personal development, with many celebrated poems from Leaves of Grass showing its influence. Walt Whitman's New Orleans is the first book dedicated to republishing his writings about the …
New Orleans of Lafcadio Hearn
Illustrated Sketches from the Daily City Item
Av Delia, Labarre, Delia LaBarre
Häftad, 2021
344 kr
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Lafcadio Hearn (1850–1904) was a master satirist who displayed a fiery wit both as a writer and as an artist. For seven months in 1880, he surprised and amused the readers of New Orleans with his wood-block "cartoons" and accompanying articles, which were variously funny, scathing, surreal, …
Diary of Edmund Ruffin
A Dream Shattered, June 1863-June-1865
Av Edmund Ruffin, William Kauffman Scarborough
Inbunden, 1977
1138 kr
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In this second of a projected three-volume edition of The Diary of Edmund Ruffin, the fiery southern nationalist records the events of the first two years of the Civil War -- from the aftermath of Fort Sumter (where Ruffin fired the first shot) to the simultaneous disasters at Gettysburg and …
Diary of Edmund Ruffin
A Dream Shattered, June 1863-June-1865
Av Edmund Ruffin, William Kauffman Scarborough
Inbunden, 1972
1138 kr
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Edmund Ruffin was one of the most significant figures in the Old South. A gentleman planter, writer, and political commentator, he made his greatest contribution as an agricultural reformer, but it was as a militant defender of slavery and champion of the southern cause that he gained his greatest …
Diary of Edmund Ruffin
A Dream Shattered, June 1863-June-1865
Av Edmund Ruffin, William Kauffman Scarborough
Inbunden, 1989
1166 kr
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In this last of the three-volume printed edition of The Diary of Edmund Ruffin, the celebrated Virginia agricultural reformer and apostle of secession chronicles the increasingly melancholy events of the last two years of the Civil War and of his own life. Apart from one brief sojourn in …
