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AMERICA-ANTEBELLUM ERA

(Lost in the Antebellum)

(Hardcover - 1 Feb 2011)

 

Robert D. Morritt

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         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.,.