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The Carolina Backcountry on the Eve of the Revolution

The Carolina Backcountry on the Eve of the Revolution The Journal and Other Writings of Charles Woodmason, Anglican Itinerant - Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press

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In what is probably the fullest and most vivid extant account of the American Colonial frontier, The Carolina Backcountry on the Eve of the Revolution gives shape to the daily life, thoughts, hopes, and fears of the frontier people. It is set forth by one of the most extraordinary men who ever sought out the wilderness--Charles Woodmason, an Anglican minister whose moral earnestness and savage indignation, combined with a vehement style, make him worthy of comparison with Swift. The book consists of his journal, selections from the sermons he preached to his Backcountry congregations, and the letters he wrote to influential people in Charleston and England describing life on the frontier and arguing the cause of the frontier people. Woodmason's pleas are fervent and moving; his narrative and descriptive style is colorful to a degree attained by few writers in Colonial America.

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ISBN: 9780807840351
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Pub date:
Edition: 1st edition
Language: English
Number of pages: 344
Weight: 392g
Height: 200mm
Width: 140mm
Spine width: 19mm