The Life and Adventures of Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw

The Life and Adventures of Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw

Author: Frances Milton Trollope

Publisher:

Published: 1836

Total Pages: 1060

ISBN-13:

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Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw was born to a Mississippi squatter family that got ahead and bought better land far from their squatter site. There the neighbors are a family German immigrants, who have worked their land in the Louisiana forest without using slaves. The Whitlaws promptly purchase two slaves and send Jonathan to school in Natchez where he gets the training he needs to work as a confidential clerk for Colonel Dart, owner of the largest plantation in the area. Whitlaw is soon in charge of punishment of the slaves. He is also scheming fo acquire some land of his own but after some frustration, concentrates on exposing the Blighs, who hide runaway slaves, in the hope of buying their land on the cheap after they've been ruined.


The Life and Adventures of Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw

The Life and Adventures of Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw

Author: Frances Milton Trollope

Publisher: Kessinger Publishing

Published: 2009-05

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9781104495930

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.


The Life and Adventures of Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw

The Life and Adventures of Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw

Author: Frances Milton Trollope

Publisher:

Published: 1836

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13:

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Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw was born to a Mississippi squatter family that got ahead and bought better land far from their squatter site. There the neighbors are a family German immigrants, who have worked their land in the Louisiana forest without using slaves. The Whitlaws promptly purchase two slaves and send Jonathan to school in Natchez where he gets the training he needs to work as a confidential clerk for Colonel Dart, owner of the largest plantation in the area. Whitlaw is soon in charge of punishment of the slaves. He is also scheming fo acquire some land of his own but after some frustration, concentrates on exposing the Blighs, who hide runaway slaves, in the hope of buying their land on the cheap after they've been ruined.


The Life and Adventures of Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw, Or Scenes on the Mississippi (Classic Reprint)

The Life and Adventures of Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw, Or Scenes on the Mississippi (Classic Reprint)

Author: Frances Trollope

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-08-08

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780267132911

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Excerpt from The Life and Adventures of Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw, or Scenes on the Mississippi Under twenty, and of the very lowest order Of society. Their garments were Scanty and sordid, and they had much the look and air of that poorly-paid class known in every manufacturing town in the United States as the gals Of the factory. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.


Inventing Sam Slick

Inventing Sam Slick

Author: Richard A. Davies

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2005-12-15

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1442658088

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Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1796–1865) was one of pre-confederation Canada's best-known authors. His popular 'Sam Slick the Clockmaker' character was a household name not only in his home country, but also in England and the United States. Born in Windsor, Nova Scotia, Haliburton was not only a writer, but also a lawyer, judge, politician, and historian. He gained fame for his writing in 1836 with The Clockmaker: or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick of Slickville for a Halifax newspaper. It became a hit in England and was followed by six sequels. Although Haliburton tried to put Sam Slick aside and work in other genres, he found himself invariably returning to the character in his later books. This commitment to Slick resulted in a curious effacement of Haliburton's own personal gentlemanly identity, which he spent the second half of his life affirming by fostering links with socially well connected family in England. In the public imagination, however, he remained linked with Sam Slick. Based on over ten years of archival research, Richard A. Davies's scholarly biography of Haliburton is the first since 1924. It is an engaging examination of a controversial and contradictory Canadian writer and significant figure in the history of pre-confederation Nova Scotia.