Reminiscences of A Rebel And A Heroic Slave's Tale: Contrasting the Peculiar Institution of Slavery in the American South. Written Chiefly of the Things Seen During the Civil War

Mitchell, J./ Eggleston, George Cary

ISBN 10: 194664028X / ISBN 13: 9781946640284

Published by Historic Publishing, 2017

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144 pages. 11.00x8.50x0.33 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reminiscences of A Rebel And A Heroic Slave's Tale: Contrasting the Peculiar Institution of Slavery in the American South. Written Chiefly of the Things Seen During the Civil War
• Publisher: Historic Publishing
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 194664028X
• ISBN 13: 9781946640284
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Mitchell, J.
• Condition: Brand New

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Synopsis

THE State of Virginia is famous in American annals for the multitudinous array of her statesmen and heroes. She has been dignified by some the mother of statesmen. History has not been sparing in recording their names, or in blazoning their deeds. Her high position in this respect, has given her an enviable distinction among her sister States. With Virginia for his birth-place, even a man of ordinary parts, on account of the general partiality for her sons, easily rises to eminent stations. Men, not great enough to attract special attention in their native States, have, like a certain distinguished citizen in the State of New York, sighed and repined that they were not born in Virginia. Yet not all the great ones of the Old Dominion have, by the fact of their birth-place, escaped undeserved obscurity. By some strange neglect, one of the truest, manliest, and bravest of her children,--one who, in after years, will, I think, command the pen of genius to set his merits forth, holds now no higher place in the records of that grand old Commonwealth than is held by a horse or an ox. Let those account for it who can, but there stands the fact, that a man who loved liberty as well as did Patrick Henry,--who deserved it as much as Thomas Jefferson,--and who fought for it with a valor as high, an arm as strong, and against odds as great, as he who led all the armies of the American colonies through the great war for freedom and independence, lives now only in the chattel records of his native State. THAT was an admirable idea of De Quincey's, formally to postulate any startling theory upon which he desired to build an argument or a story, and to insist that his readers should regard the postulate as proved, on pain of losing altogether what he had to say. The plan is a very convenient one, saving a deal of argument, and establishing in the outset a very desirable relation of mastery and subordination between writer and reader. Indeed, but for some such device I should never be able to get on at all with these sketches, fully to understand which, the reader must make of himself, for the time at least, a Confederate. He must put himself in the place of the Southerners and look at some things through their eyes, if he would understand those things and their results at all; and as it is no part of my purpose to write a defense of the Southern view of any question, it will save a good deal of explanation on my part, and weariness on the part of the reader....