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From Slavery to Agrarian Capitalism in the Cotton Plantation South: Central Georgia, 1800-1880 (review)

From Slavery to Agrarian Capitalism in the Cotton Plantation South: Central Georgia, 1800-1880... From Slavery to Agrarian Capitalism in the Cotton Plantation South: Central Georgia, 1800-1880 (review) Mitchell Snay Southern Cultures, Volume 1, Number 4, Summer 1995, pp. 497-499 (Review) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.1995.0039 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/423683/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 16:54 GMT from JHU Libraries Reviews497 and 1 very often feel blue, and about twice in a while I go to the doggery and git blue, and then 1 look up at the blue cerulean heavens and sing the melancholy chorus of the Blue-tailed fly. I'm doin' my durndest to harmonize, and think I could succeed if it wasn't for sum things. That's a long excerpt, but a grand one, full of rage and pride and (yet) humor, its dialect striking just the right tone. I'd never heard it before I read this book, and now I'll never forget it. "Being humorous in the South," says Roy Blount, "is like being motorized in Los Angeles or argumentative in New York—humorous is not generally a whole calling in and of itself, it's just something that you're in trouble if you aren't." Well, Roy is, by nature and by calling—in magazines, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

From Slavery to Agrarian Capitalism in the Cotton Plantation South: Central Georgia, 1800-1880 (review)

Snay, Mitchell.
Southern Cultures , Volume 1 (4) – Jan 4, 2012
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From Slavery to Agrarian Capitalism in the Cotton Plantation South: Central Georgia, 1800-1880 (review) Mitchell Snay Southern Cultures, Volume 1, Number 4, Summer 1995, pp. 497-499 (Review) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.1995.0039 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/423683/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 16:54 GMT from JHU Libraries Reviews497 and 1 very often feel blue, and about twice in a while I go to the doggery and git blue, and then 1 look up at the blue cerulean heavens and sing the melancholy chorus of the Blue-tailed fly. I'm doin' my durndest to harmonize, and think I could succeed if it wasn't for sum things. That's a long excerpt, but a grand one, full of rage and pride and (yet) humor, its dialect striking just the right tone. I'd never heard it before I read this book, and now I'll never forget it. "Being humorous in the South," says Roy Blount, "is like being motorized in Los Angeles or argumentative in New York—humorous is not generally a whole calling in and of itself, it's just something that you're in trouble if you aren't." Well, Roy is, by nature and by calling—in magazines,

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