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End of an Era: The Last Days of Traditional Southern Culture as Seen Through the Eyes of a Young Confederate Soldier

Book by John Sergeant Wise · 3 quotes · People, Years, Firsts

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“However the Southern man may have been master of the negro, there were compensatory processes whereby certain negroes were masters of their masters' children.”

“And let me tell you, you boys of America, that there is no higher inspiration to any man to be a good man, a good citizen, and a good son, brother, or father, than the knowledge that you come from honest blood.”

“In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave and could not recover it, was very nebulous.”