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The Confessions of Edward Isham
Edward Isham
其他書名
A Poor White Life of the Old South
出版University of Georgia Press, 1998
主題History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)Biography & Autobiography / HistoricalBiography & Autobiography / Criminals & OutlawsHistory / United States / 19th Century
ISBN08203207309780820320731
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=yQQbOhJdK78C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋This compelling collection of original documents and current scholarship sheds considerable light on the underside of the poor white experience in the antebellum South. In 1859, the Georgian Edward Isham, convicted in North Carolina of murdering a Piedmont farmer, dictated his life story to his court-appointed defense attorney. The autobiography left behind provides a rare look at the world of poor whites from the viewpoint of a member of this most elusive of the Old South's social groups. A selection of essays accompanying the autobiography examines the meaning of the document from a variety of perspectives: crime, frontier life, gender relations, labor, and the genre of nineteenth-century confessional literature.