A Southern ReaderWillard Thorp This anthology that looks at various aspects of life in the South. |
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... lived as well as their plantations would allow them . So much would seem to be the fact of the Cavalier South . The myth is something else again ; possibly it is more important . For when all is said and done , a myth is far more ...
... lived as well as their plantations would allow them . So much would seem to be the fact of the Cavalier South . The myth is something else again ; possibly it is more important . For when all is said and done , a myth is far more ...
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... lived there . " Yessir , Carl Rowan lives there , " some child would reply , and , without further instructions , a clattering horde of kids would stampede into the house and to my bed to say : " Some white man wants you out there ...
... lived there . " Yessir , Carl Rowan lives there , " some child would reply , and , without further instructions , a clattering horde of kids would stampede into the house and to my bed to say : " Some white man wants you out there ...
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... lived well but did not labor ; second , the artisans , who lived well by laboring ; third , the drones , who starved by not laboring . Moreover one could find here all the subdivisions of these great classes which occur in the regions ...
... lived well but did not labor ; second , the artisans , who lived well by laboring ; third , the drones , who starved by not laboring . Moreover one could find here all the subdivisions of these great classes which occur in the regions ...
Contents
I | 3 |
THE LAND | 20 |
BRYANT TOURS THE SOUTH William Cullen Bryant | 30 |
Copyright | |
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