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Georgia (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 2.18
, 1848,—a date now celebrated annually in all Georgia schools. It is a remarkable fact that the middle counties of Georgia have produced the most representative humorists of the South. Among thoseorn or who at some time lived in this part of Georgia may be mentioned A. B. Longstreet, See also Book II, Chap. XIX. the author of Georgia scenes; Richard Malcolm Johnston, See also Book IIIy Lanier. See also Book III. Chap. IV. Middle Georgia was also before the war the most democrati of the richest men, he tells us, Stories of Georgia (1896), p. 24<*> were put in the fields to wo Lowell has written. In the march through Georgia, General Sherman's army devastated the Turneroastal rice plantations of South Carolina and Georgia. These two volumes represent the author's be the rice-field negroes of South Carolina and Georgia are known to have come from the west coast ofice plantations of coastal South Carolina and Georgia as the Uncle Remus dialect is spoken on the c
Missouri (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 2.18
speech is fuller and more open-mouthed. . . . At the South and in New England, where there is less mingling of elements, the old usages will probably endure much longer; and it is a fair assumption that in the Mississippi Valley and in the Trans-Missouri country, a normal American speech free of local idiosyncrasies will appear first. Meredith Nicholson, The Hoosiers (1900), pp. 58-60. This New England dialect which has spread so widely through the West and North-west was summarized by Lonparalleled growth in population, has not influenced the dialect of the West as have New England and the South, is due partly to the lack of dialectal distinction in the speech of New York and partly to the more migratory habits of New Englanders and Southerners. If in the Mississippi Valley and in the Trans-Missouri country a normal American speech free of local idiosyncrasies will first appear, as seems not unlikely, a compromise English dialect will have won its second and greatest victory.
Jena (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 2.18
West Indian islanders; Andrew Lang's At the sign of the Ship (Longman's Magazine, Feb., 1889). in Brazil; Romero's Contos do Brazil. in Cape Colony South African Folk-Lore Journal, vol. I.; among the Bushmen of South Africa; James A. Honey's South African Folk-Tales (1910), p. 79. along the lower Congo; The sun, New York, 17 March, 1912. in West Central Africa; The times, New York, 24 Aug., 1913. among the Hottentots; Toni von Held's Marchen und Sagen der afrikanischeu Neger (Jena, 1904), p. 72. and among the Jatakas or Birth-Stories of Buddha. Indian fairy tales, selected and edited by Joseph Jacobs (1910), p. 251. As to the accuracy with which the Uncle Remus stories are reproduced, the author speaks as follows: Uncle Remus: his Songs and his Sayings, Introduction, p. 3. With respect to the folk-lore series, my purpose has been to preserve the legends themselves in their original simplicity, and to wed them permanently to the quaint dialect—if, indeed it ca
Atlanta (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 2.18
unded Uncle Remus's magazine, which survived him only a few years. Immediately after his death in 1908 the Uncle Remus Memorial Association was formed, the purpose of which was to purchase the home of the writer of the Uncle Remus stories, near Atlanta, and to convert it into a suitable memorial. This has now been done. The significance of Uncle Remus as a study in negro character can best be understood by a comparison of Harris's work with that of others, especially his predecessors, in ter, were not the first to put their own race into literature or to realize the value of their own folk-lore. The possibilities of negro folk-lore, says a recent negro writer, See Benjamin Griffith Brawley's The negro in literature and art (Atlanta, 1910), p. 5. have carried it across the line, so that it has had strong influence on the work of such Southern writers as Thomas Nelson Page and Frank L. Stanton, and on that of George W. Cable. Its chief monument so far has been in the Uncle
Mississippi (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 2.18
far as the writer's observation goes, only by white people, never by negroes, except in a minstrel show. The man who really discovered the literary material latent in negro character and in negro dialect was Irwin Russell (1853-79), of Mississippi. The two men best qualified to pass judgment, Joel Chandler Harris and Thomas Nelson Page, have both borne grateful testimony to Russell's genius and to their indebtedness to him. It is noteworthy also that the first marble bust that the State of Mississippi has placed in her Hall of Fame is that of Irwin Russell. Russell's greatest poem is Christmas night in the quarters (1878). In its fidelity to the humble life that it seeks to portray, in the simplicity of its style, the genuineness of its feeling, the distinctness of its pictures, and the sympathy that inspires it, Christmas night belongs in the class with Burns's Cotter's Saturday night and Whittier's Snow-Bound. Burs, said Russell, is my idol. He seems to me the greatest man th
Ohio (United States) (search for this): chapter 2.18
e Tom, the hero of Uncle Tom's cabin (1852). The dramatic power shown in this book is undeniable. More than any other one book it hastened the Civil War and made necessary the emancipation of all slaves. But Uncle Tom is portrayed so plainly for a purpose, the scenes in the book are so skilfully arranged to excite public indignation, that one can hardly call it a great work of art or even a work of art at all. Mrs. Stowe knew the negro chiefly as she had seen him on the right bank of the Ohio River. Ohio was a free state and the negroes that Mrs. Stowe talked with in Cincinnati were those that had fled from Kentucky. Uncle Tom is the type of a good man, a man of sterling piety, subjected to bitter servitude and maltreatment; but there is little about him that is distinctively negro. There is no African background. The language that he speaks is a low grade of highly evangelized English but no more distinctive of the negro than of illiterate whites. Let one compare his language on
Illinois (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 2.18
and South-west. The Western dialect is currently understood to be the dialect found in the writings of Mark Twain, See Book III, Chap. VIII. Edward Eggleston, Hamlin Garland, See Book III, Chap. VI. Owen Wister, and James Whitcomb Riley. See Book III, Chap. X. But this dialect is also composite. The original sources are chiefly New England and the South, with a mingling here and there of German and Scandinavian elements. Thus the pioneer dialect of Southern Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois was mainly Southern, while the northern portions of these States reflect the New England influence. The speech of Nebraska shows the influence of Swedish and Pennsylvania German settlers. Western and Central New York was settled chiefly by New Englanders, but in the last few decades there are evidences of Irish, German, and Scandinavian influences. Eastern New York and Pennsylvania were intermediate in their speech habits between New England and the South, their dialect showing traces of
Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 2.18
dinavian elements. Thus the pioneer dialect of Southern Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois was mainly Southern, while the northern portions of these States reflect the New England influence. The speech of Nebraska shows the influence of Swedish and Pennsylvania German settlers. Western and Central New York was settled chiefly by New Englanders, but in the last few decades there are evidences of Irish, German, and Scandinavian influences. Eastern New York and Pennsylvania were intermediate in their Pennsylvania were intermediate in their speech habits between New England and the South, their dialect showing traces of both. Even cultivated Indianians, particularly those of Southern antecedents, have the habit of clinging to their words; they do not bite them off sharply. . . . In New England and in Virginia the Italian a finds recognition, whereas in the intermediate region the narrower sound of the vowel prevails; and likewise the softening of r is noted in New England and among the Virginians and other Southerners, while in
Eatonton (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 2.18
ch story is worth studying as marking a stage in the development of primitive English. The life of Joel Chandler Harris was comparatively uneventful though it was an ideal preparation for the work that he was to do. He was born in Eatonton, Putnam County, Georgia, 9 December, 1848,—a date now celebrated annually in all Georgia schools. It is a remarkable fact that the middle counties of Georgia have produced the most representative humorists of the South. Among those who were born or who atols but much to a country printing office and to a large library in which it was his privilege to browse at will. At the age of twelve he read one morning the announcement that a new newspaper, The Countryman, was to be started a few miles from Eatonton. The editor, Joseph Addison Turner, the owner of a large plantation and many slaves, was a man of sound but old-fashioned literary taste and wished his paper to be modelled after The spectator of Addison and Steele. This announcement kindled t
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 2.18
, brought these stories with them from Africa to Brazil and the United States. The Indians in both countries learned them from the negroes. Of the negro dialect in general as spoken in the United States today, there are four varieties: （1) The dialect of Virginia, especiallyate sympathy that have linked the far separated sections of the United States into closer bonds of union and fellowship. The resemblances,r, existing among the dialects of the different sections of the United States are so great, and the differences so slight, that one hesitatesthat in this dialect or in the dialect of any other part of the United States is to be found our best reservoir of fresh and vigorous Englishd the three that, with many modifications, have survived in the United States. The Northern or Northumbrian dialect was spoken north of the mise between the other two. The situation a century ago in the United States was not dissimilar. New England, with Massachusetts as the spe
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