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AMERICA-ANTEBELLUM ERA
(Lost in the Antebellum)
(Hardcover
- 1 Feb 2011)
Robert D. Morritt
Availability
 To
more mature readers the title may appear to harbor memories of the era of the
old-fashioned Department Store, one can almost envisage the following
scenario as the Elevator lady announces, “Second floor," Lingerie “
followed by, “Third Floor “Housewares", and “Fourth floor”, The
Antebellum. The author apologizes to the reader and to those who exclaim,
“How old is this guy?”
“Lost in the Antebellum” is a
compendium of the thoughts and works of authors, also and examination of
prose and scientific thought prior to the American Civil War as described by
the following: Maury the
oceanographer (later in the Civil War a Confederate spy. Also included is the
author William Gilmore Simms, of whom Edgar Allen Poe remarked, was, “The
best American novelist in recent decades.”
The Hutchinson Family Singers whose concert tours in the USA and
Britain did much to serve the cause of emancipation. The real story of Davy
Crockett, the American frontiersman who died with Jim Bowie at the Alamo,
which is more interesting than the old fictional accounts of his life; and
'Six Days in the Moon,' a tale of an event that allegedly occurred in June
1844, by 'an Aerio-Nautical Man' who has just returned from the Moon. A
southern viewpoint and retort by their literary version of “Uncle Tom’s
Cabin”, a version entitled,”The Planter’s Bride” by Caroline Lee Hentz.
Also featured are contemporary composers, explorers,
poets and filibusters. “Lost in the Antebellum” is a concise view,
oceanography, literature, musicians and of Prose in pre-Civil War America.,.
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