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| Preface | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction | ||
| 1 | Autobiography of Edward Isham, Alias "Hardaway Bone" | 1 |
| 2 | Edward Isham and Poor White Labor in the Old South | 19 |
| 3 | A Stereoscopic View of the Frontier: George Swain, Edward Isham, and the Resettlement of the Cherokee Country | 32 |
| 4 | "I Have Killed a Damned Dog": Murder by a Poor White in the Antebellum South | 45 |
| 5 | Edward Isham and Criminal Justice for the Poor White in Antebellum North Carolina | 71 |
| 6 | Mothers, Lovers, and Wives: Images of Poor White Women in Edward Isham's Autobiography | 85 |
| 7 | The Worlds of Nineteenth-Century Condemned Men | 101 |
| App. A: Maps | 117 | |
| App. B | Superior Court Judge Robert R. Heath's Statement of the Case State v. Hardaway Bone | 121 |
| App. C | Newspaper Accounts Relating to Edward Isham | 128 |
| Notes | 133 | |
| Contributors | 185 | |
| Index | 187 |
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| $99.99 | Digital |
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Derrick Eason
reviewed The Confessions of Edward Isham: A Poor White Life of the Old South on February 06, 2014
The Confessions of Edward Isham: A Poor White Life of the Old South
The best part of this book is the first section, which is the actual biography of Edward Isham. In it, he relates his short life of womanizing, fighting, drinking, gambling, and moving from one part of Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, and Arkansas to another. The biography is literally a list of fights -- fights over gambling losses, over women, over so-called honor, over anything at all. It is entertaining. However, the historical essays that follow are a bit flat. They're also repetitive. Two essays -- one about poor white women in the antebellum South, and the other about condemned men in the same -- are useful. The others can be discarded.
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Add The Confessions of Edward Isham: A Poor White Life of the Old South, 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 Piedmon, The Confessions of Edward Isham: A Poor White Life of the Old South to the inventory that you are selling on WonderClubX
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Add The Confessions of Edward Isham: A Poor White Life of the Old South, 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 Piedmon, The Confessions of Edward Isham: A Poor White Life of the Old South to your collection on WonderClub |
