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Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 586
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The American Baptist Almanac for the Year of Our Lord ...
Author: The British Almanac of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
Author: A Literate South
Author: Beth Barton SchweigerPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030011253X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
A provocative examination of literacy in the American South before emancipation, countering the long-standing stereotype of the South's oral tradition Schweiger complicates our understanding of literacy in the American South in the decades just prior to the Civil War by showing that rural people had access to a remarkable variety of things to read. Drawing on the writings of four young women who lived in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Schweiger shows how free and enslaved people learned to read, and that they wrote and spoke poems, songs, stories, and religious doctrines that were circulated by speech and in print. The assumption that slavery and reading are incompatible--which has its origins in the eighteenth century--has obscured the rich literate tradition at the heart of Southern and American culture.
The Ceylon Almanac and Annual Register for the Year of Our Lord
Author: Sadlier's Catholic Almanac and Ordo for the Year of Our Lord ...
Author: An American Icon
Author: Winifred MorganPublisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874133073
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The top hat and stars and stripes that characterize Uncle Sam today were first worn by Yankee actors portraying Brother Jonathan. This book explores the complex emblematic function of the Brother Jonathan figure and its changing meaning through the decades and in a multitude of popular media.
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