Excerpt from Virginia Life in Fiction I The strangest aspect of the Virginia legend is'-the fact that, in fiction and popular tradition, North as well as South, the small planter class has overshadowed every other class except the poor whites and the slaves. Of the vastly more numerous middle - class farmers we hear nothing except in recent histories. In the Virginia tradition there are no sec ond families - except those that emigrated to North Caro 'lina. The unromantic census reports, however, remind us that in 1860 ...
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Excerpt from Virginia Life in Fiction I The strangest aspect of the Virginia legend is'-the fact that, in fiction and popular tradition, North as well as South, the small planter class has overshadowed every other class except the poor whites and the slaves. Of the vastly more numerous middle - class farmers we hear nothing except in recent histories. In the Virginia tradition there are no sec ond families - except those that emigrated to North Caro 'lina. The unromantic census reports, however, remind us that in 1860 there were in the entire state only 114 persons 'who owned as many as 100 slaves, and this out of a white population of over There were, of course, some poor and even landless gentlemen, but probably not many. If all who claim descent from wealthy old Virginian families are to be believed, these 114 families were the most prolific on record. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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