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Early British Travelers to the U. S. South

Early British Travelers to the U. S. South Early British Travelers to the U. S. South by Laurie Langbauer What shall we say of the bones, unclean, Whose verdurous anonymity will grow? -- Allen Tate, "Ode to the Confederate Dead" "Relinquunt Omnia Servare Rem Publicam." -- Robert Lowell, "For the Union Dead" i. Roanoke When British visitors to America decided to stay, they first stuck roots in the South. The origins of British relations to the New World seem so decidedly Yankee in character that it can be hard even in the South to remember that the earliest English explorations of America were as much southern as northern. That "New England" designates a group of northern United States is a historical accident, but one that has left any southern sense of origins skewed and belated: Plymouth Rock actually marked the third time the British came to found a colony (Jamestown in modern day Virginia was second). The first British settlement in the New World, and the first birth of an English child on this soil (Virginia Dare), happened in North Carolina, on Roanoke Island. Even the Mayflower was trying to get back to the South, but was blown spectacularly (and conclusively) off course. Americans remember the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Southern Literary Journal University of North Carolina Press

Early British Travelers to the U. S. South

Langbauer, Laurie.
The Southern Literary Journal , Volume 40 (1) – Jan 30, 2008
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Early British Travelers to the U. S. South by Laurie Langbauer What shall we say of the bones, unclean, Whose verdurous anonymity will grow? -- Allen Tate, "Ode to the Confederate Dead" "Relinquunt Omnia Servare Rem Publicam." -- Robert Lowell, "For the Union Dead" i. Roanoke When British visitors to America decided to stay, they first stuck roots in the South. The origins of British relations to the New World seem so decidedly Yankee in character that it can be hard even in the South to remember that the earliest English explorations of America were as much southern as northern. That "New England" designates a group of northern United States is a historical accident, but one that has left any southern sense of origins skewed and belated: Plymouth Rock actually marked the third time the British came to found a colony (Jamestown in modern day Virginia was second). The first British settlement in the New World, and the first birth of an English child on this soil (Virginia Dare), happened in North Carolina, on Roanoke Island. Even the Mayflower was trying to get back to the South, but was blown spectacularly (and conclusively) off course. Americans remember the

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