Evil Necessity: Slavery and Political Culture in Antebellum KentuckyUniversity Press of Kentucky - Fiction John Fox Jr. published this great romantic novel of the Cumberland Mountains of Kentucky and Virginia in 1908, and the book quickly became one of AmericaÕs favorites. It has all the elements of a good romanceÑa superior but natural heroine, a hero who is an agent of progress and enlightenment, a group of supposedly benighted mountaineers to be drawn into the flow of mainstream American culture, a generous dose of social and class struggle, and a setting among the misty coves and cliffs of the blue Cumberlands. Reprinted with a foreword by John Ed Pearce, The Trail of the Lonesome Pine has all the excitement and poignance that caught and held readersÕ interest when the book first appeared. |
Contents
Preface | |
1 | |
The Colonizationist Imperative | 27 |
The Dilemma of Conservative Reform | 59 |
The Limits of Political Action | 91 |
The Crisis at the Door | 115 |
The Crossroads | 133 |
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Evil Necessity: Slavery and Political Culture in Antebellum Kentucky Harold D. Tallant Limited preview - 2021 |
Evil Necessity: Slavery and Political Culture in Antebellum Kentucky Harold D. Tallant Limited preview - 2014 |
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