Afloat on the James (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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9780483098046: Afloat on the James (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0483098043 ISBN 13: 9780483098046

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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For nearly two centuries the inevitable struggle, which everywhere ar tends the effacement of an old race by a newer strain, continued. The al luvial valley of the James became the garden of the South. The splendid homes of cultured and influential planters, whose negroes were uncount able, were famous for storied hospitality in a period of political and social sunshine, but the clouds of adversity grayed the Virginia horizon when the Erie canal was finished and western bread-stuffs filled the seaboard mar kets. The storm burst in 1861 and then another chapter, the greatest inthe eventful annals of the River of History was written. The ivy clam bered unhindered over stately portals the tempest of warfare swept across this pleasant scene and left it desolate. This book is the story of a revival.

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