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Various . Continental Monthly, Vol. I. February, 1862, No. II.

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Do those men ever _reflect_, who talk so glibly of this government as too large, and as one which must inevitably be sundered, to what a degradation they calmly look forward! No; Union,--come what may,--now and ever. Greatness is to every brave man a _necessity_. Out on the craven and base-hearted who aspire to being less than the co-rulers of a continent. See how vile and mean are those men who in the South have lost all national pride in a small-minded provincial attachment to a State, who love their local county better still, and concentrate their real political interests in the feudal government of a plantation. Shall _we_ be as such,--_we_, the men who hold the destinies of a hemisphere within our grasp? Never,--God help us,--_never!_ [mehr]

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John Richardson The Canadian Brothers or The Prophecy Fulfilled

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John Peter Richardson II (April 14, 1801 – January 24, 1864) was the 59th Governor of South Carolina from 1840 to 1842.Born on Hickory Hill Plantation in Clarendon County, Richardson was educated at Moses Waddel's School in Willington. He graduated from South Carolina College in 1819 and practiced law upon passing the bar. At the age of 24, Richardson was elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives in 1825 and was known as a Unionist during the Nullification Crisis of the early 1830s. He was elevated to the South Carolina Senate in 1834 and won a seat in Congress as a Jacksonian for the 8th district after the death of Richard Irvine Manning I in 1836. Running as a Democrat, Richardson won re-election for a full term to the Twenty-fifth Congress. [mehr]

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John Richardson The Canadian Brothers (Volume I) or The Prophecy Fulfilled

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John Peter Richardson II (April 14, 1801 – January 24, 1864) was the 59th Governor of South Carolina from 1840 to 1842.Born on Hickory Hill Plantation in Clarendon County, Richardson was educated at Moses Waddel's School in Willington. He graduated from South Carolina College in 1819 and practiced law upon passing the bar. At the age of 24, Richardson was elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives in 1825 and was known as a Unionist during the Nullification Crisis of the early 1830s. He was elevated to the South Carolina Senate in 1834 and won a seat in Congress as a Jacksonian for the 8th district after the death of Richard Irvine Manning I in 1836. Running as a Democrat, Richardson won re-election for a full term to the Twenty-fifth Congress. [mehr]

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John Richardson The Canadian Brothers (Volume II) or The Prophecy Fulfilled

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John Peter Richardson II (April 14, 1801 – January 24, 1864) was the 59th Governor of South Carolina from 1840 to 1842.Born on Hickory Hill Plantation in Clarendon County, Richardson was educated at Moses Waddel's School in Willington. He graduated from South Carolina College in 1819 and practiced law upon passing the bar. At the age of 24, Richardson was elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives in 1825 and was known as a Unionist during the Nullification Crisis of the early 1830s. He was elevated to the South Carolina Senate in 1834 and won a seat in Congress as a Jacksonian for the 8th district after the death of Richard Irvine Manning I in 1836. Running as a Democrat, Richardson won re-election for a full term to the Twenty-fifth Congress. [mehr]

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Major (John) Richardson Matilda Montgomerie The Prophecy Fulfilled

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John Peter Richardson II (April 14, 1801 – January 24, 1864) was the 59th Governor of South Carolina from 1840 to 1842.Born on Hickory Hill Plantation in Clarendon County, Richardson was educated at Moses Waddel's School in Willington. He graduated from South Carolina College in 1819 and practiced law upon passing the bar. At the age of 24, Richardson was elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives in 1825 and was known as a Unionist during the Nullification Crisis of the early 1830s. He was elevated to the South Carolina Senate in 1834 and won a seat in Congress as a Jacksonian for the 8th district after the death of Richard Irvine Manning I in 1836. Running as a Democrat, Richardson won re-election for a full term to the Twenty-fifth Congress. [mehr]

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Alastair Macleod The Banana Cutters

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"Joseph was not fond of the river. He was from a forest tribe – he feared the river god. It seemed so large and powerful, sliding darkly along. Tombe laughed at Joseph's fears - and dreams. Because one night Joseph had a dream; he dreamt the river god rose up and took Tombe away. Joseph awoke in a sweat, but on the bunk below him Tombe was safe. The next day at break time Joseph took a small path out of the plantation into the nearby forest. The familiar forest sounds enveloped him – the singing of insect wings, the screeks and whistles of birds and the scuffling of leaves as a small mammal moved through the undergrowth" [mehr]

Stichwörter: friendship, crocodiles, Africa, animism

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Frances Ann Kemble Records Of a Girlhood Fiscle (Part-I)

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Frances Anne "Fanny" Kemble (27 November 1809 – 15 January 1893) was a notable British actress from a theatre family in the early and mid-nineteenth century. She was also a well-known and popular writer, whose published works included plays, poetry, eleven volumes of memoirs, travel writing and works about the theatre. In 1834 she married an American, Pierce Mease Butler, heir to cotton, tobacco and rice plantations on the Sea Islands of Georgia, and to the hundreds of slaves who worked them. They spent the winter of 1838–39 at the plantations, and Kemble kept a diary of her observations. She returned to the theatre after their separation in 1847 and toured major US cities. Although her memoir circulated in abolitionist circles, Kemble waited until 1863, during the American Civil War, to publish her anti-slavery Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839. It has become her best-known work in the United States, although she published several other volumes of journals. [mehr]

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Various Author Lippincott'S Magazine, December, 1885

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In The Following Article I Propose To Give Some Account Of A Typical Tobacco-Plantation In Virginia And The Life Of Its Negro Laborers As I Have Observed It From Day To Day And Season To Season. Although It Is Restricted To Narrow Local Bounds And Runs In The Line Of Exacting Routine, That Life Is Yet Varied And Eventful In Its Way. The Negro Stands So Much Apart To Himself, In Spite Of All Transforming Influences, That Everything Relating To Him Seems Unique And Almost Foreign. Even Now, When Emancipation Has Done So Much To Improve His Condition, His Social And Economic Status Still Presents Peculiar And Anomalous Aspects; And In No Part Of The South Is This More Notably The Case Than In The Southern Counties Of Virginia, Which, Before The Late War, Were The Principal Seat Of Slavery In The State, And Where To-Day The Blacks Far Outnumber The Whites. This Section Has Always Been An Important Tobacco-Region; And This Is The Explanation Of Its Teeming Negro Population, For Tobacco Requires As Much And As Continuous Work As Cotton. There Were Many Hundreds Of Slaves On The Large Plantations, And Their Descendants Have Bred With Great Rapidity And Show Little [mehr]

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Various Non Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885

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In The Following Article I Propose To Give Some Account Of A Typical Tobacco-Plantation In Virginia And The Life Of Its Negro Laborers As I Have Observed It From Day To Day And Season To Season. Although It Is Restricted To Narrow Local Bounds And Runs In The Line Of Exacting Routine, That Life Is Yet Varied And Eventful In Its Way. The Negro Stands So Much Apart To Himself, In Spite Of All Transforming Influences, That Everything Relating To Him Seems Unique And Almost Foreign. Even Now, When Emancipation Has Done So Much To Improve His Condition, His Social And Economic Status Still Presents Peculiar And Anomalous Aspects; And In No Part Of The South Is This More Notably The Case Than In The Southern Counties Of Virginia, Which, Before The Late War, Were The Principal Seat Of Slavery In The State, And Where To-Day The Blacks Far Outnumber The Whites. This Section Has Always Been An Important Tobacco-Region; And This Is The Explanation Of Its Teeming Negro Population, For Tobacco Requires As Much And As Continuous Work As Cotton. There Were Many Hundreds Of Slaves On The Large Plantations, And Their Descendants Have Bred With Great Rapidity And Show Little Inclination To Emigrate From The Neighborhoods Where They Were Born. [mehr]

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Paul Jackson A Servant's Story

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In April of 1860, on her 17th birthday, Anne’s father gave her Wexford, a 15,000-acre cotton and tobacco plantation. He also gave her a new body servant, whom Anne named Moragan. Moragan is not a conventional slave. She is about 10, Irish, and has a habit of speaking her mind – a trait that annoys Anne profoundly! Moragan, does not know the rules and conventions of being a slave – much less being a body servant, so Anne trains her. It is not an easy task for either one of them, and Moragan is certain her behind will be completely worn away before she learns to behave! As America begins to fall apart at the seams, Anne and Moragan begin to forge a completely different relationship. Moragan runs Wexford House for Anne, and she learns what it means to be a slave from both perspectives: owner and owned. Anne always reminds Moragan that she and all the other servants are only stock, and not ‘people’. Both of them are products of their time: and as Anne learns how to govern the society under her, she and Moragan discover who they truly are. [mehr]

Stichwörter: Historical Fiction, Slavery, Plantations, Virginia, Mistress, American Civil War, Body servant, Young adult, American Politics, Religion

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