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Very truly your friend,
Wm. Wells Brown.ii
My Southern Home:
OR,
THE SOUTH AND ITS PEOPLE.
BY
WM. WELLS BROWN, M.D.
AUTHOR OF “SKETCHES OF PLACES AND PEOPLE ABROAD,”
“CLOTELLE,” “THE BLACK MAN,” “THE NEGRO IN
THE REBELLION,” “THE RISING SON,” ETC.
—
“Go, little book, from this thy solitude!
I cast thee on the waters—go thy ways!
And if, as I believe, thy vein be good,
The world will find thee after many days.”—Southey.
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BOSTON:
A. G. BROWN & CO., PUBLISHERS,
28 East Canton Street.
1880.iii
Copyright, 1880,
BY ANNIE G. BROWN.
electrotyped and printed by
Duffy, Cashman & Co., Fayette Court, Boston.
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PREFACE.
No attempt has been made to create heroes orheroines, or to appeal to the imagination or theheart.
The earlier incidents were written out from theauthor’s recollections. The later sketches heregiven, are the results of recent visits to the South,where the incidents were jotted down at the time oftheir occurrence, or as they fell from the lips of thenarrators, and in their own unadorned dialect.
Boston, May, 1880.v
CONTENTS.
| I. |
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| Poplar Farm and its occupants. Southern Characteristics. Coon-Huntingand its results. Sunny side of Slave life on thePlantation. |
| II. |
| The Religious Teaching at Poplar Farm. Rev. Mr. Pinchen.A Model Southern Preacher. Religious Influence among theSoutherners of the olden time. Genuine negro wit. |
| III. |
| A Southern country Doctor. Ancient mode of “pulling teeth.”Dinkie the King of the Voudoos. |