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Tokens of Affection The Letters of a Planter's Daughter in the Old South (review)

Tokens of Affection The Letters of a Planter's Daughter in the Old South (review) Tokens of Affection The Letters of a Planter's Daughter in the Old South (review) Jane Turner Censer Southern Cultures, Volume 4, Number 2, 1998, pp. 76-78 (Review) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.1998.0114 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/425153/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 17:41 GMT from JHU Libraries and, in general, skirts it with considerable agility. Stuart's not entirely unalloyed good intentions receive appropriately qualified praise, while his supposedly clum- sy attempts to implement them incur criticism. But sustaining these distinctions would seem to require demonstration that there was a viable middle ground — that colonial expansionism and the protection of the Native Americans were in the final analysis compatible and that Stuart could have done a better job of rec- onciling these apparently conflicting ends. Snapp argues unconvincingly for a middle way. Still, the author is to be commended for both his intellectual inde- pendence and his nuanced presentation of an extended essay that is stimulating as well as challenging. Tokens of Affection The Letters of a Planter's Daughter in the Old South Edited by Carol Bleser University of Georgia Press, 1 996 403 pp. Cloth, $45.00 Reviewed by Jane Turner http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

Tokens of Affection The Letters of a Planter's Daughter in the Old South (review)

Southern Cultures , Volume 4 (2) – Jan 4, 2012

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University of North Carolina Press
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Abstract

Tokens of Affection The Letters of a Planter's Daughter in the Old South (review) Jane Turner Censer Southern Cultures, Volume 4, Number 2, 1998, pp. 76-78 (Review) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.1998.0114 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/425153/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 17:41 GMT from JHU Libraries and, in general, skirts it with considerable agility. Stuart's not entirely unalloyed good intentions receive appropriately qualified praise, while his supposedly clum- sy attempts to implement them incur criticism. But sustaining these distinctions would seem to require demonstration that there was a viable middle ground — that colonial expansionism and the protection of the Native Americans were in the final analysis compatible and that Stuart could have done a better job of rec- onciling these apparently conflicting ends. Snapp argues unconvincingly for a middle way. Still, the author is to be commended for both his intellectual inde- pendence and his nuanced presentation of an extended essay that is stimulating as well as challenging. Tokens of Affection The Letters of a Planter's Daughter in the Old South Edited by Carol Bleser University of Georgia Press, 1 996 403 pp. Cloth, $45.00 Reviewed by Jane Turner

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Published: Jan 4, 2012

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