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1904 Old South Travel History Guide Folklore Racial Post Civil War Negro Dialect For Sale
Highways and Byways of the South
Including North Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia, Tennessee,
Kentucky, Virginia, Alabama, Georgia, Florida
by
Clifton Johnson
Folks, this scarce book is about a
very different time in US history!
By the turn of the century the corps of travelers in the
South had
been swelled. They were drawn to the South by Washington's Mt. Vernon,
a mecca for travelers, but they also wished to investigate plantation
society and to inquire about the growth and expansion of slavery.
Increasingly, the South was viewed as a region distinct from the rest
of the new United States, almost as another country.
This book is one of Johnson's excellent American travel volumes; the
book covers the southern states area. This is a turn-of-the-century
book with quaint and graphic photos, descriptions and travel anecdotes.
The author is a keen observer as shown by his descriptions, encounters
and opinions with average local people, the scenery, some history and
some legends. Johnson's literary style is direct, and his word-pictures
vivid. He walks the back roads and speaks to locals who recall their
history, anecdotes and stories, including several memories of the Civil
War, all told in the local dialect. Johnson asks to eat meals and spend
nights with families along the way. The book is full of his experiences
and stories from over a century ago . . . . . of, about, and from the
'locals'. If you ever wondered what it was like to live 'back then' or
how some scratched to make a living or even opinions of 'those
ni**ers', it's recorded here in Johnson's book.
There are several incidents of inappropriate and insensitive racial
comments in this book and should be considered a historical item from
our past.
COPYRIGHT: 1904 with 1904 on the title page
PUBLISHER: Macmillan Co
PAGES: 362 pgs measuring 6" x 8"
CONDITION:This hardcover book will make an excellent reading or
research copy.
The spine has been recovered with black leather and inside front and
rear hinges are reinforced with black linen archival binding. No signs
of previous ownership. Pages have a light smudges here and there with
very little foxing. Pages are not brittle. Page edges are
clean. Boards have minor edgewear and
corner bumping. The text block is
solid with no loose or missing
pages. A very solid book that is 109 years old!
The book was written with no index so I've leafed through the
book
and listed some topics from the chapters to give you a better idea of
the contents:
Contents
I. Spring on the Florida Coast:
St. Augustine • Medieval-looking fort • Golf • Miami • Indian River •
palmettos • "Hammock land" • Coconut Grove • Indian moon and rain
legend • mosquitoes • burning smudges • Everglades • "Billing's Shoes"
• derogatory negro comments • Billy Bowlegs, chief of Seminoles •
swamp • Indian dugout canoes • "chain lightning" liquor • honest Injuns
• Charlie Cypress • wild scuppernong grapes • Negro homes • disaster
freeze of 1895 • orange district • Ormond • sand sailing • St. John's
River • Tampa
II. Way Down Upon the Suwanee River:
Mr. Perky • Mr. Tushers • Suwanee
cabins • front porches • darkeys •
fire wood • colored schoolhouse and graveyard • Skacegrease • colored
church and preaching • Sunday dinners • wild game • baptism • several
southern dialect conversations recorded • John Blue
III. A County-seat in Alabama:
Tuskegee • Booker T Washington home •
relaxed atmosphere • Saturday,
market day, is hectic and crowded • ox teams are common • conjure-bag •
superstitious negroes • Jake Durkin • Interest rates are high in south
• several 'before the war' topics • Tuskegee mansions • white folks'
cemetery • expensive grave monuments • separate negro cemetery •
colored folks' camp-meeting ground
IV. Among the Georgia Crackers:
Crickboro, Georgia, typical small town • school term is from
November
to April • Hardshell Church house of worship, Old Primitive Baptist
Church • Christian dance games of Stealing Partners, Twistification and
Fancy Four • corn and cotton principal crops • corn was hand-planted •
bee-keeping was common • Black-gum hives • friendly Southern people •
bee-robbing time • baptizin' hole • most women and girls use snuff •
Civil War memories • Reuben Snell • Mrs. Shenton • Northern soldiers
robbed people
V. In the Tennessee Mountains:
Great Smoky Mountains • Wolf Creek •
old-time tavern • North Carolina
women will take a man an' whack him • poor land • moonshining,
moonshine • stills • lawless post-war years • Hudnut family mountain
cabin • primitive
mountain life • Preacher Brice • bedtime comes early • wild 'varmints'
include b'ar, turkeys, squirrel, turkle doves, 'possums, whistlepigs •
sugar trees, maples • chestnuts • woodland schoolhouse
VI. The Birthplace of Lincoln:
Mammoth Cave description • eyeless fish • poor land • cave
visitors
number nearly 6,000 a year now • Hodgensville description, Lincoln's
birthplace • "Lincoln Spring" • Lincoln cabin was moved and rebuilt •
cabin was sold is a wandering show now • attraction at the Chicago
Exposition • Ivory Goldy Burton and Vesty Opal Burton fetch water from
Lincoln Spring (picture included) • author spent the night at the
Lincoln farmhouse • making candles • horseback traveling • Lincoln
Spring Schoolhouse • Southern Baptist church • widlam • men spit on
church
floors is acceptable • lynching
VII. A Glimpse of Kentucky Blue Grass:
only good-sized city is Louisville •
Henry Clay home in Ashland is
typical Kentucky mansion • famous for horses • Athens village • Bryan's
Station famous Indian battle • renowned leader Daniel Boone • Boone's
son Israel mortally wounded
VIII. On the Banks of the Ohio:
stern-wheel ferry steamer • persistent
'shanty boat' dwellers • river
gypsies • river pirates • barn signs • box martin bird houses • Jones's
Landing • 1884 rain storm, Portsmouth and Ironton • river store-boat •
Rebel bushwacker stories • Marietta • Ohio River • Tecumseh • May Fuller
IX.A Virginia Wonder:
Natural Bridge • Blue Ridge Mountains •
Anderson State House • Panther
Knob on Wildcat Mountain • Devil's Marble Yard • making shingles
X. The Battlefield of Bull Run:
red clay soil • Warrenton Pike road the
worst condition • Bull Run
battle description • battlefield relics • Thoroughfare Gap • Mosby's
rebel calvary • Hagarstown popular wedding resort • Ole Jim Robinson
free negro • "flam cakes"
XI. John Brown's Town:
Harper's Ferry • Benjamin Harrison
Butts • John Brown's Cave • colored
children schoolhouse • John Brown's Fort • many residents personally
experienced the raid • Elk Ridge (Snufftown) • Pleasant Grove
(Mosquitoesville) • Brown at Harper's Ferry memories • John Brown
history retold • slaveholders imprisoned in the armory
XII. In Cotton Harvest Time:
South Carolina • Eagle House Hotel •
Pinky Simmons office man • tobacco
raising • curing barns • Cooper River • ox cart ride • negro houses •
Mr. Lemair • sweet potatoes and peanuts • old-time plantation quarters
• house servants • easy time in slavery • runaway tells his story • Joe
Saws preacher • local negro society known as The Spiritual Union
Association
XIII. A Quest for Tar:
South Carolina people nicknamed
'sandlappers' • North Carolina folks
called tar-heels • tar-making • pine trees • Fayetteville • primitive
woodland industries • area never recovered from Union forces • Spout
Springs • tar-kiln • Charlie Brinkley • Brer Rabbit stories retold •
home-made brooms
XIV. Round about Old Jamestown:
Jamestown, Williamsburg and Yorktown •
Yorktown was chief port of
Virginia • Cornwallis monument • siege of Yorktown • Nelson mansion •
commander sought a cave • surrender place marked by curious symbolic
shaft • Williamsburg colonial houses • remains of old Jamestown • heavy
earthworks of a fort • Captain John Smith • Jamestown and Captain John
Smith history • massive tombstones • quaint epitaphs • the 'Courting
Green' or 'Kissing Meadow' where 1619 maidens were saleed off •
twenty 'negars' were sold here and the beginning of slavery in the US
XV. The Niggers:
discriminating laws and attitudes of
white neighbors • white
indignation when 'the colored' wants respect • Northern people don't
understand • mountain folk chose not to have colored neighbors • rustic
cabins • cotton money crop • 1889 negro exodus started for Kansas •
trust issues • crimes
Illustrations (all vintage
photographs):
In A Well • Ancient Spanish Gateway at
St. Augustine • Palmettos on the
Indian River • A Characteristic Landscape • A Colored Truck Farmer • A
Planter ready to start for Market • On the Borders of the Everglades •
An Indian Dugout • Seminole Indians from the Everglades • Grubbing up
Palmetto Scrub • Picking Oranges • Washing in the Yard • A Successful
Search for Eggs • Water from the Village Pump • Colored People’s
Schoolhouse • The Jew’s-harp • The Bell-ringers • A Drink from the
Suwanee • Mosquitoes • The Court-house Front • A Favorite Loitering
Place • Quiet on the Town Street • A Typical Old-time Mansion •
Repairing a Chair • A Discussion • Keeping the Grass out of the
Cemetery • The Negro Cemetery • An Improvised Hothouse • A Country Mule
hitched on a Town Street • At Home • A Schoolroom Corner • A Country
Store • Bee Gums • A Foot-bridge • Working in the Garden • Hickory
Whistles • Neighbors • Returning from the Hen-house • A Drink at the
Spring • Old-time Tavern • A Mountain Mill • In an Upland Corn-field
• Evening on the Porch • Dipping Snuff • An Inhabitant of the Mountains
• Ploughing among the Girdled Chestnuts • Pioneer Homemakers • Woodland
Schoolhouse • The Entrance to the Mammoth Cave • Hodgensville
• The Site of the Lincoln Cabin • A Pail of Water from the Lincoln
Spring • The Fisherman • A Wounded Crow • On the Highway • Weeding a
Tobacco Bed • A Blue-grass Mansion • An Old Toll-gate House on the Pike
• A Country Storekeeper • Rubbing down a Trotter • A Village Scene • At
the Back Door • An Onion Patch • A Ferry Steamer • Corn-meal Day • Some
Farm Buildings • Going Home from the Spring • A Riverside Team •
Schoolgirl at Home • Rafts on a Tributary • Natural Bridge •
Planting Watermelons • A Spring-house • A Farmer’s Boy • A Load of Logs
• A Sunny Afternoon • Splitting out Shingles from an Oak • A Home
Gateway • Companions • Stone Bridge over Bull Run • A Huckster’s Team
on the Way to Washington • The Spot where Stonewall Jackson was Wounded
• On the Battle-field • Feeding the Calf • A Pitcher of Milk • A Ford •
A Negro’s Woodpile • A Doorstep Maid • An Old Mill • A Question • A
Chat on the Road • A Hillside Highway • Some Fun in a Boat • The church
Brown attended • The Meeting of the Shenandoah and Potomac • Beside the
Potomac • October in South Carolina • An Ox in Harness • The Plantation
Porch • A Rice Mill • Digging Peanuts • Old-time Plantation Quarters •
A Live-oak draped with Moss • Coming Home from the Post-office • A
Pause on the Road • An Advertisement • Dipping Tar into a Barrel • The
Burning Tar-kiln • Tar-burner’s Camp • On a Trail • At the Back
Door • The Home Woodpile • Garden Peppers • Tower of Jamestown
Church • Yorktown Street • The Spot where Cornwallis surrendered • The
Beach at Yorktown • Stacking Cornstalks • A Rider • On the Road Home •
The James River opposite the Old Settlement • A Dwelling • A Cotton
Picker at the Cabin Well • An Inventor and his Street Car • Weighing
the Day’s Picking • Watering the Plants • Reading • A Camp-meeting
Building • A Negro Schoolhouse • A Farm Cart
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