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Oldest Living Confederate Chaplain Tells All?: Or, James B. Avirett and the Rise and Fall of the Rich Lands

Oldest Living Confederate Chaplain Tells All?: Or, James B. Avirett and the Rise and Fall of the... Oldest Living Confederate Chaplain Tells All?: Or, James B. Avirett and the Rise and Fall of the Rich Lands David S. Cecelski Southern Cultures, Volume 3, Number 4, 1997, pp. 5-24 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.1997.0059 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/425128/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 17:39 GMT from JHU Libraries ESSAY Oldest living Confederate Chaplain Tells All? Or, James B. Avirett and the Rise and Fall of the Rich Lands by David S. Cecelski I ^^^h ecently I toured the former site of the Rich Lands in the old r ^^Ê M piney woods of Onslow County, North Carolina. The Rich _ ^^^^H Lands had been one of the great plantations in the naval stores ' ^^L ^^| industry of the Old South. John Avirett and more than 1 2 5 _^^^^_^^ slaves built a kingdom out of the long-leaf pine's resinous gum, producing rivers of turpentine, tar, pitch, and rosin whose swelling tides literally carried sailing vessels to every continent on earth. Succeeded long ago by corpo- rate timberlands and loblolly thickets, the Rich Lands once sprawled across more than 22,000 acres just southeast of what is now http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

Oldest Living Confederate Chaplain Tells All?: Or, James B. Avirett and the Rise and Fall of the Rich Lands

Southern Cultures , Volume 3 (4) – Jan 4, 2012

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Oldest Living Confederate Chaplain Tells All?: Or, James B. Avirett and the Rise and Fall of the Rich Lands David S. Cecelski Southern Cultures, Volume 3, Number 4, 1997, pp. 5-24 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.1997.0059 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/425128/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 17:39 GMT from JHU Libraries ESSAY Oldest living Confederate Chaplain Tells All? Or, James B. Avirett and the Rise and Fall of the Rich Lands by David S. Cecelski I ^^^h ecently I toured the former site of the Rich Lands in the old r ^^Ê M piney woods of Onslow County, North Carolina. The Rich _ ^^^^H Lands had been one of the great plantations in the naval stores ' ^^L ^^| industry of the Old South. John Avirett and more than 1 2 5 _^^^^_^^ slaves built a kingdom out of the long-leaf pine's resinous gum, producing rivers of turpentine, tar, pitch, and rosin whose swelling tides literally carried sailing vessels to every continent on earth. Succeeded long ago by corpo- rate timberlands and loblolly thickets, the Rich Lands once sprawled across more than 22,000 acres just southeast of what is now

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