Author: William Carey RichardsPublisher:
ISBN:
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 RichardsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boys
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Factual material presented in a fictional framework.
Harry's Vacation
Author: William C. RichardsPublisher: 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: Romance of Biography
Author: Francis Lister HawksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
The Genius of Italy: Or, Fact and Poetry from Italian Life, Literature, and Religion ... Fourth Revised and Illustrated Edition, Etc
Author: Robert TURNBULL (D.D.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Leeds Public Libraries. Catalogue of the Central Lending Library, Etc
Author: Leeds Public LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Peoria Public Library List of English Fiction, French Fiction, and Juveniles
Author: Peoria Public Library (Peoria, Ill.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
A catalog of juvenile and fiction books held by the Peoria Public Library, in one alphabetical listing.
Catalogue of the San Francisco Free Public Library, Short Titles: Nov. 1880
Author: San Francisco Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Debunking the Yule Log Myth
Author: Robert E. MayPublisher: 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.
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