Author: William Carey Richards
Publisher:
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Category : Boys
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Factual material presented in a fictional framework.
Harry's Vacation; Or, Philosophy at Home
Author: William Carey Richards
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boys
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Factual material presented in a fictional framework.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boys
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Factual material presented in a fictional framework.
Harry's Vacation
Author: William C. Richards
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368197584
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368197584
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.
Putnam's Monthly
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
The Uniform Trade List Annual
Author:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1636
Book Description
With alphabetical indexes of firms and trade specialties.
Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1636
Book Description
With alphabetical indexes of firms and trade specialties.
Children's Catalog
Author: Detroit Public Library
Publisher:
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Category : Book catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Book catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
American Literary Gazette and Publishers' Circular
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Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 922
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 922
Book Description
The London Quarterly Review
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Debunking the Yule Log Myth
Author: Robert E. May
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
According to an oft repeated legend, during Christmas before the Civil War, all enslaved people in the American South enjoyed lengthy vacations of a week or more depending on how long an oversized “Yule log” burned in their master’s fireplace. As long as the log held out, slaves escaped heavy labor and their masters’ whips and enjoyed a rare freedom of movement to go and do what they wished as well as gorge themselves on food and drink they never got the rest of the year. No wonder they soaked those logs in swamps to make them burn even longer. But is it true? In this book historian Robert May takes readers on a detective caper as he investigates a story that reaches back to colonial America and continues today. May finds no evidence of the Yule log tradition in the historical record, instead showing that it originated with pro-Confederate Lost Cause propagandists attempting to present the South’s prewar system of human bondage in as soft tones as possible. Tales about good-natured masters and unresentful slaves jovially sharing Christmases played to this impulse beautifully. Debunking the Yule Log Myth does more than correct the historical record. It serves as a highly instructive case study in the process of historical mythmaking. This captivating tale will appeal to all readers interested in African American history and the long struggle to support white supremacy by creating a mythical antebellum American South.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
According to an oft repeated legend, during Christmas before the Civil War, all enslaved people in the American South enjoyed lengthy vacations of a week or more depending on how long an oversized “Yule log” burned in their master’s fireplace. As long as the log held out, slaves escaped heavy labor and their masters’ whips and enjoyed a rare freedom of movement to go and do what they wished as well as gorge themselves on food and drink they never got the rest of the year. No wonder they soaked those logs in swamps to make them burn even longer. But is it true? In this book historian Robert May takes readers on a detective caper as he investigates a story that reaches back to colonial America and continues today. May finds no evidence of the Yule log tradition in the historical record, instead showing that it originated with pro-Confederate Lost Cause propagandists attempting to present the South’s prewar system of human bondage in as soft tones as possible. Tales about good-natured masters and unresentful slaves jovially sharing Christmases played to this impulse beautifully. Debunking the Yule Log Myth does more than correct the historical record. It serves as a highly instructive case study in the process of historical mythmaking. This captivating tale will appeal to all readers interested in African American history and the long struggle to support white supremacy by creating a mythical antebellum American South.
American Publishers' Circular and Literary Gazette
Author: Charles R. Rode
Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Christian Examiner and Theological Review
Author:
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 934
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 934
Book Description