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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 Excerpt: ...of Young America at Atlanta. It shows what manner of individual that young gentleman is. I believe I have forgotten to state that I was credibly informed that boys of from twelve to sixteen years of age frequently wear bowie knives and pistols in the southern part of Georgia. One day, at Atlanta, a peanut and candy-selling urchin, at the railroad station, was rudely pushed off the platform of the train by one of the conductors. "He was so mad," they said, " that he weighed a ton." He swore revenge. His heaving breast, contracted brow, compressed lips, flashing eyes--and, above all, his half-muttered "By golly! if I don't make you pay for that, then I 'm mistaken--there now "--all these outward signs foretold that a dreadful retribution awaited the devoted conductor of the freight train; for he was a full-blooded Young American, was this candy-selling urchin, and when he swore it was the sign that there " was suthin' orful a-comin'." He sold out his stock that day with unusual rapidity, for he sold it at half price, and was diligent at his business. He raised twenty-five cents and bought a piece of fat pork. The "grade" at Atlanta is very steep; and heavy freight trains, when going at full speed, seldom exceed the rate of three miles an hour until they reach a considerable distance from the city. Young America attached a piece of string to the pork, and went down with another boy to the place where the grade is steepest. "Now, look 'ye here," said the candy seller to his comrade, as he placed the fat pork on the rail, "you take hold of that string and pull me along!" He squatted down on the pork and was trailed up and down both rails for half an hour or more by his willing and laughing com...
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John R. McKivigan is Associate Professor of History at West Virginia University. He is the co-editor, with John Blassingame, of The Frederick Douglass Papers and author of The War Against Proslavery Religion: Abolitionism and the Northern Churches (Cornell, 1984).
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“John McKivigan has done a splendid job of editing this paperback volume. . . . This little-known book, largely overshadowed heretofore by Frederick Law Olmsted’s famous The Cotton Kingdom, will now, in this fine reprint, take its rightful place among the many volumes that enable us to gain some sense of the reality of American slavery and of the extremes to which Americans were driven to be rid of it.”
—Georgia Historical Quarterly
“No other text about slave opinion before the Civil War exists. This new edition of Redpath's book makes a welcome addition to our understanding of how blacks felt about the peculiar institution on the eve of its demise.”
—Clarence E. Walker, University of California, Davis
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- PublisherRarebooksclub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1150940506
- ISBN 13 9781150940507
- BindingPaperback
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