A southern reader
This anthology that looks at various aspects of life in the South
xxi, 760, vi p. illus. 25 cm.
386739
Prologue: South and tradition / John Peale Bishop ; Of an ideal and conflict / W. J. Cash
The Land: Bryant tours the South / William Cullen Bryant ; Englishman settles in Virginia in the 1870's / A. G. Bradley ; Delta / William Alexander Percy ; Arkansas: a look round the land / John Gould Fletcher
Rivers: Robert Beverley notes how the first Virginians used their rivers / Robert Beverley ; Flatboat war at Vicksburg / H. S. Fulkerson ; English scientist travels by steamboart on the Alabama River / Sir Charles Lyell ; Sam Clemens completes his education on the Mississippi / Samuel L. Clemens ; Why the Tennessee / R. L. Duffus
Southerners at home: Inhabitants of lubberland / William Byrd ; Plantation tutor at Nomini Hall / Philip Vickers Fithian ; Creoles of New Orleans from Gumbo Ya-Ya, a Collection of Louisiana Folk Tales ; Southern lady endures the shock of war / Judith Brockenbrough McGuire ; Pinch of necessity / Dr. Paul B. Barringer ; "They go about in their black masks" / Mary Boykin Chesnut ; Correspondent Reid inspects the defeated South / Whitelaw Reid ; "We begin now to realize the ruin to property which the war has entailed upon us." / Henry William Ravenel ; Three tenant families / Agee and Evans ; Georgians at home from Georgia, A Guide to its Towns and Countryside
Working the Land: Jefferson on "Those who labor in the earth" / Thomas Jefferson ; Blue smoke / Sherwood Anderson ; Eight-cent cotton and forty-cent meat / Ben Robertson ; Olmsted visits a Louisiana sugar plantation in 1853 / Frederick Law Olmsted ; John Taylor of Caroline and his arator / John Taylor ; Duties of the plantation overseer / John Spencer Bassett ; Sir Charles Lyell watches the negroes working at Hopeton Plantation / Sir Charles Lyell
Education: Old field school in Virginia / John Davis ; Longstreet on Waddel's Academy / Augustus Baldwin Longstreet ; College life in the old South / E. Merton Coulter ; Fundamentalists and the schools / Virginius Dabney ; Supreme Court decision outlawing segregation in the public schools
Sports and Pastimes: Taking the springs tour in Virginia / Perceval Reniers ; Historian Ramsay on deer-hunting in South Carolina / David Ramsay ; Gander-pulling / Thomas Henderson ; Hon. William Elliott joins Judge P. and Doctor E. in a wildcat hunt / William Elliott ; Hail Rex! / Lyle Saxon
Image in the Mirror: Southern gentleman a he saw himself / Daniel R. Hundley ; John Randolph instructs his young cousin in the beharior required of a Virginia Aristocrat / John Randolph ; Southern gentleman recalls his training in the aristocratic code / William C. Preston ; "Role which woman should act in the the great drama of life." / Thomas R. Dew ; Tournament in honor of the Nuptials of Miss
, of Morven / James B. Avirett ; Grandeur that was not / Howard W. Odum ; Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson at twenty-four paces / Marquis James ; Virility and chivalry / John W. De Forest ; Editor Daniel rebukes the Southern generals for fighting a chivalric war / John M. Daniel ; Kin and the love of country / George Fitzhugh ; Kin and politics in colonial Virginia / Charles S. Sydnor ; Reunion of the kinfolks / Ben Robertson ; One day of Southern hospitality / Henry Barnard ; "Frolic" at Highland / Bennet H. Barrow ; Dr. Bagby on the hospitality of Jeems Jimmison / George W. Bagby ; Sour note on Southern hospitality / Frederick Law Olmsted
Military Glory: "Will you not be forced to submit?
-'Never!" / William Howard Russell ; "I hear the ringing laugh of Stuart
-the prince of cavaliers!" / John Esten Cooke ; Pickett's charge at Gettysburg / James Longstreet ; "Will you falter not?" a broadside printed for the men of Hood's division ; "There was not a man in the Confederacy whose influence ... was as great as his" / U. S. Grant
The Negro: Slave witness of a slave auction / Solomon Northup ; Frederick Douglass learns to read / Frederick Douglass ; Two slave narratives / B. A. Botkin ; William Johnson, free negro of Natchez / William Johnson ; Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Exposition address / Booker T. Washington ; Of the training of black men / W. E. B. Du Bois ; "Poor wayfarin' stranger" / J. Saunders Redding ; Into a strange new land / Carl Thomas Rowan ; Remembering Nat Turner / Sterling A. Brown ; Thomas Jefferson on the negro and the slavery question / Thomas Jefferson ; George Fitzhugh on the "Free slave trade" of the North / George Fitzhugh ; H. R. Helper compares the free and the slave states / Hinton Rowan Helper ; Christmas night in the quarters / Irwin Russell ; Cable's "Freed
Not free" / George Washington Cable ; "We would hunt him down and kill him" / Benjamin Tillman ; Case of Eddie Mack / Hodding Carter
Violence: Arkansas fight from The Spirit of the Times ; "We now shot them like dogs" from A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, of the State of Tennessee ; Memorial of a committee appointed at a meeting of colored citizens, of Frankfort, Ky., and vicinity, praying the enactment of laws for the better protection of life ; Three 1930 lynchings / Arthur Raper ; "Ride on, stranger" / John Fox, Jr. ; Fighting the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920's / Virginius Dabney
Politics: Thomas Jefferson's First Inaugural Address / Thomas Jefferson ; Henry Clay appeals to the South to support his "American System" / Henry Clay ; Andrew Jackson vetoes the bill for rechartering the Bank of the United States / Andrew Jackson ; Calhoun on nullification and the concurrent majority / John C. Calhoun ; Davy Crockett tells how to win an election from The Life of David Crockett ; Robert Toombs of Georgia speaks his farewell to the Senate on the eve of the War of Rebellion / Robert Toombs ; Journalist Pike observes the "Black Parliament" in South Carolina in the spring of 1873 / James Shepherd Pike ; Grady's "The New South" / Henry W. Grady ; Huey Long takes up his mortgage on Louisiana / Harnett T. Kane
Religion: Thomas Jefferson's "Bill for establishing religious freedom" / Thomas Jefferson ; War of the churches in Virginia / John Esten Cooke ; Bishop Asbury rides the Methodist circuits in the South / Francis Asbury ; "Great Revival in the West" or the "Second Awakening" / James Ross ; Swedish lady novelist inspects a camp meeting / Fredrika Bremer ; "Great iron wheel" controversy / J. R. Graves and W. G. Brownlow ; Scriptural defense of slavery / T. Stringfellow ; Tongues and snakes / Archie Robertson ; Faith of our fathers / Hodding Carter
Cities and Towns: "These cities differ radically among themselves" / Edd Winfield Parks ; Mobile in 1844 / Henry Benjamin Whipple ; Edward King takes time off to enjoy the beauty of Charleston / Edward King ; New Orleans: Decatur Street / John Peale Bishop ; Birmingham / Harold H. Martin ; County Court day in Kentucky / James Lane Allen ; Annals of Possum Trot / Herman C. Nixon
Business and Industry: De Bow on the Southern industrial revolution / James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow ; William Gregg: factory master of the Old South / Broadus Mitchell ; "I'd take the mill anytime" Muriel Wolff ; Geyser of oil / J. A. Clark and M. T. Halbouty ; Chemical treasure trove / Williams Haynes
Arts: Mr. Rutledge's oyster roast / Richard Barry ; Juleps before breakfast / W. H. Russell ; Edibles and potables / Willard Thorp ; "Sacred harp" convention / George Pullen Jackson ; Jazz from Storyville, New Orleans / Barry Ulanov ; Folk Songs: Barbey Ellen ; Old Smoky ; Hunters of Kentucky ; Turnip greens ; Confederate Songs: Bonnie Blue Flag ; Goober peas ; Negro spirituals and songs: Steal away to Jesus ; Go down, Moses ; Joshua fit de battle ob Jerico ; John Henry ; "I had a good woman" ; Tall tales and short: Bell "Witch" ; Colonel Crockett shoots for his supper ; Lawyer Prentiss and the bedbug trial ; To Helen / Edgar Allan Poe ; Israfel / Edgar Allan Poe ; Ulalume
a ballad / Edgar Allal Poe ; Masque of the red death / Edgar Allan Poe ; Rare ripe garden-seed / George W. Harris ; Soldier-poet in a northern prison / Sidney Lanier ; Mr. Rabbit nibbles up the butter / Joel Chandler Harris ; 'Sieur George / George Washington Cable ; On the mountainside / Elizabeth Madox Roberts ; From "The Face of the War" / Thomas Wolfe ; Dead boy / John Crowe Ransom ; Judith of Bethulia / John Crowe Ransom ; Two in August / John Crowe Ransom ; Grave / Katherine Anne Porter ; Ode to the Confederate dead / Allen Tate ; Mediterranean / Allen Tate ; Æneas at Washington / Allen Tate ; Brilliant leaves / Caroline Gordon ; Lily Daw and the three ladies / Eudora Welty ; Barn Burning / William Faulkner ; Nobel Prize Award speech / William Faulkner