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My Southern Home or, The South and Its People (review)

My Southern Home or, The South and Its People (review) West Virginia History, N.S. 6, No.2, Fall 2012 European "cultures of violence." By utilizing the "new worlds" dialectic with a strong anthropological framework, Jennings breathes much needed life into the role of violence in Early America. His accessible treatment of the violence lays the foundation for a more comprehensive application of his methods. This highly quotable book is a must-read for all students of Native American, Southeastern, and Early American history. Isaac J. Emrick West Virginia University My Southern Home or, The South and Its People. By William Wells Brown; edited and with an introduction by John Ernest. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011. pp. xlix, 247.) Perhaps best known as the first African American novelist (Clotelle), William Wells Brown enjoyed a varied career as an author of fiction, travel narratives, drama, and history, as well as having gained international esteem as an antislavery lecturer and social commentator. My Southern Home represents every facet of his work, and this definitive edition prepared by John Ernest delineates the complexities of Brown's literary achievements. As Ernest concedes in his introduction, the seams in My Southern Home show. The earlier portion demonstrates the barbarism and cruelty of slavery in http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional Studies West Virginia University Press

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West Virginia History, N.S. 6, No.2, Fall 2012 European "cultures of violence." By utilizing the "new worlds" dialectic with a strong anthropological framework, Jennings breathes much needed life into the role of violence in Early America. His accessible treatment of the violence lays the foundation for a more comprehensive application of his methods. This highly quotable book is a must-read for all students of Native American, Southeastern, and Early American history. Isaac J. Emrick West Virginia University My Southern Home or, The South and Its People. By William Wells Brown; edited and with an introduction by John Ernest. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011. pp. xlix, 247.) Perhaps best known as the first African American novelist (Clotelle), William Wells Brown enjoyed a varied career as an author of fiction, travel narratives, drama, and history, as well as having gained international esteem as an antislavery lecturer and social commentator. My Southern Home represents every facet of his work, and this definitive edition prepared by John Ernest delineates the complexities of Brown's literary achievements. As Ernest concedes in his introduction, the seams in My Southern Home show. The earlier portion demonstrates the barbarism and cruelty of slavery in

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