The Grammar Of Good Intentions
Subtitle: Race And The Antebellum Culture Of Benevolence
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: January 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780801489853
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; United States - 19th Century; History - General History; History; History - U.S.; English; History: American; USA; United States - Antebellum Era; American - General; Discrimination & Racism
First sentence: Robert Montgomery Bird's 1837 novel Nick of the Woods, set in late-eighteenth-century Kentucky, features a Quaker named Nathan Slaughter who is ridiculed by his fellow Anglo frontiersmen for his pacifism-in particular, for his (initial) refusal to fight the area's Indians, whom Bird represents as brutal in the extreme.