Social Relations in Our Southern States
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: June 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9781419147968
Subjects: American history; Social History; History; History - U.S.; History: American; USA; United States - State & Local - South
First sentence: PERHAPS it would be altogether superfluous to remind our readers, that the fashion has been for several years, at least since the unlooked-for success of Uncle Tom's Cabin, to write books about the South, Englishmen, Frenchmen, Down-Eastern men, the Bloomer style of men, as well as countless numbers of female scribblers, have not ceased to drum upon the public tympanum (almost to deafness, indeed) in praise or blame-generally the latter-of Southern peculiarities, social habits, manners, customs, observances, and domestic institutions.