Publication

2005-05-11 - The University of North Carolina Press

Language

English

Word Count

88,000 words, Guess

Page Count

352 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2004022034
  • Goodreads930958
  • LibraryThing1243207

Classifications

  • LCCF235.A1C37 2005

Description

A look at the lives of more than 100 young white men from Virginia's last generation to grow up with the institution of slavery. By examining members of this generation on personal as well as generational and cultural levels, Carmichael sheds light on the formation and reformation of Southern identity.

First Sentence

AFTER GRADUATING FROM THE University of Virginia in, 1854, in his very first speech upon returning to his native King William County, William Roane Aylett proclaimed: The mighty winds which sweep by us on their way to distant lands tell us, at every blast and every whisper their moving principle is progress.

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