Telling About the South: An Autobiography of Antiquity

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James Carson, Queen's University

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The South’s antiquity is a story of theft. Legitimacy can’t be found nor can it be contrived. It can only be earned, by understanding that what happened at Jamestown, Stono, Cowpens, Appomattox, and Selma are in some ways just so many quick breaths taken in a very long life. Only when we try to understand how our usurpations have grafted our lives onto much more ancient rootstock can we begin to resituate how we live and how we think about how we live.

Publication Date

1-11-2016

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journal article

Recommended Citation

Carson, James, "Telling About the South: An Autobiography of Antiquity" (2016). Study the South. 19.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/studythesouth/19

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