Diddie, Dumps, and Tot
Diddie, Dumps, and Tot

Author: Louise Clarke Pyrnelle

Publisher:

Published: 1910

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13:

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The adventures of three young white girls on her father's large cotton plantation in Mississippi prior to the Civil War.

Diddie, Dumps, and Tot
Diddie, Dumps, and Tot

Author: Louise Clarke Pyrnelle

Publisher: Tutis Digital Pub

Published: 2009-05-01

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 9788132051541

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Diddie, Dumps, and Tot: Or, Plantation Child-Life was written by Louise Clarke Pyrnelle. Pyrnelle gives the reader a look at life from the slave owners perspective. Information customs, songs and etiquette are covered. The reader has a glimpse into the minds of the slave owners and learns their perspective on the issue of slave ownership. Pyrnelle says ""In writing this little volume, I had for my primary object the idea of keeping alive many of the old stories, legends, traditions, games, hymns, and superstitions of the Southern slaves, which, with this generation of negroes, will pass away. There are now no more dear old "Mammies" and "Aunties" in our nurseries, no more good old "Uncles" in the workshops, to tell the children those old tales that have been told to our mothers and grandmothers for generations--the stories that kept our fathers and grandfathers quiet at night, and induced them to go early to bed that they might hear them the sooner."

Children’s Play in Literature
Children’s Play in Literature

Author: Joyce E. Kelley

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2018-07-04

Total Pages: 447

ISBN-13: 1351334514

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While we owe much to twentieth and twenty-first century researchers’ careful studies of children’s linguistic and dramatic play, authors of literature, especially children’s literature, have matched and even anticipated these researchers in revealing play’s power—authors well aware of the way children use play to experiment with their position in the world. This volume explores the work of authors of literature as well as film, both those who write for children and those who use children as their central characters, who explore the empowering and subversive potentials of children at play. Play gives children imaginative agency over limited lives and allows for experimentation with established social roles; play’s disruptive potential also may prove dangerous not only for children but for the society that restricts them.

Bradford: Of Plymouth Plantation
Bradford: Of Plymouth Plantation

Author: William Bradford

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2023-10-09

Total Pages: 559

ISBN-13: 1649742207

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Written over a period of years by the leader of the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts, William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation is the single most complete authority for the story of the Pilgrims and the early years of the Colony they founded. Written between 1620 and 1647, the journal describes the story of the Pilgrims from 1608, when they settled in the Netherlands through the 1620 Mayflower voyage, until the year 1647.

Diddie Dumps & Tot: Or, Plantation Child-Life
Diddie Dumps & Tot: Or, Plantation Child-Life

Author: Louise Clarke Pyrnelle

Publisher: Pinnacle Press

Published: 2017-05-24

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 9781374820777

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Murder in the Gunroom
Murder in the Gunroom

Author: H. Beam Piper

Publisher: e-artnow

Published: 2018-05-16

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 8026893506

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The Lane Fleming collection of early pistols and revolvers was one of the best in the country. When Fleming was found dead on the floor of his locked gunroom, a Confederate-made Colt-type percussion .36 revolver in his hand, the coroner's verdict was "death by accident." But Gladys Fleming had her doubts. Enough at any rate to engage Colonel Jefferson Davis Rand—better known just as Jeff—private detective and a pistol-collector himself, to catalogue, appraise, and negotiate the sale of her late husband's collection.

Paradise, Nevada
Paradise, Nevada

Author: Dario Diofebi

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2021-04-06

Total Pages: 513

ISBN-13: 1635576210

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“Diofebi is an irreverent and audacious new voice.”- Susan Choi, National Book Award-Winning author of TRUST EXERCISE "Vegas has been right there forever, waiting for a great novelist, and Dario Diofebi has come dealing nothing but aces."--Darin Strauss, NBCC Award-Winning author of HALF A LIFE From an exhilarating new literary voice--the story of four transplants braving the explosive political tensions behind the deceptive, spectacular, endlessly self-reinventing city of Las Vegas. On Friday, May 1st, 2015 a bomb detonates in the infamous Positano Luxury Resort and Casino, a mammoth hotel (and exact replica of the Amalfi coast) on the Las Vegas Strip. Six months prior, a crop of strivers converge on the desert city, attempting to make a home amidst the dizzying lights: Ray, a mathematically-minded high stakes professional poker player; Mary Ann, a clinically depressed cocktail waitress; Tom, a tourist from the working class suburbs of Rome, Italy; and Lindsay, a Mormon journalist for the Las Vegas Sun who dreams of a literary career. By chance and by design, they find themselves caught up in backroom schemes for personal and political power, and are thrown into the deep end of an even bigger fight for the soul of the paradoxical town. A furiously rowdy and ricocheting saga about poker, happiness, class, and selflessness, Paradise, Nevada is a panoramic tour of America in miniature, a vertiginously beautiful systems novel where the bloody battles of neo-liberalism, immigration, labor, and family rage underneath Las Vegas' beguiling and strangely benevolent light. This exuberant debut marks the beginning of a significant career.