Swallow barn, or, A soujourn in the Old Dominion
Contributors: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries
Published: 2006
Place of publication: [Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Slavery; Fiction; Social life and customs; Plantation life; Nullification (States' rights)
Other titles: Swallow barn; Soujourn in the Old Dominion; Library of Southern literature.
Description: Swallow Barn is a novel of antebellum life on a tidewater Virginia plantation, described by the author as "variously and interchangeably partaking of the complexion of a book of travels, a diary, a collection of letters, a drama, and a history." The collection of sketches purports to be an account of the "seeings and thinkings" of Mark Littleton on his first visit to the South. Addressed to a fellow Northerner, Littleton's descriptions of Frank Merriwether and his estate bathe the plantation in a kind of nostalgic glow that nonetheless does political work in the present. The first edition was published on the eve of the Nullification Controversy. Kennedy decided to republish it in the early 1850s, he wrote to a fellow Southerner, as "an antidote to the abolition mischief."
Notes: Title from electronic title page (viewed March 23, 2009)

This electronic edition is part of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill digital library, Documenting the American South.  It is part of the collection Library of Southern literature.

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Preface signed: Mark Littleton [pseud.]

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Transcribed from: Swallow barn, or, A soujourn in the Old Dominion. Philadelphia : Carey & Lea, 1832. 2 v. ; 21 cm.

Funding from the University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill supported the electronic publication of this title.

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