Two exponents of the enlightenment: Transatlantic communication by Thomas Jefferson and Alexander von Humboldt
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Transatlantic communication between travelers of the Old and New World played a very important part in the study of Atlantic History, as it formed a bridge between America and Europe and was also instrumental in the creation of new societies. Alexander von Humboldt and Thomas Jefferson were intermediaries on either side of the Atlantic and as representatives of the Enlightenment understood the importance of international scientific network to help them undertake social improvements and promote scientific progress.
Publication Name: Southern Quarterly
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0038-4496
Year: 2006
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William Johnson's diary: The text and the man behind it
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The intensely private diary, written from1835 to1851, by William Johnson, businessman, slave holder and free man of color in Natchez, was the longest and most detailed personal narrative by an African American during the antebellum era in the US. William Johnson sought to rule rather than to serve in the hell of white supremacist, slaveholding Mississippi, and the resulting mix of pride and despair, outrage and pathos and ambition and futility are found in the text of his extraordinary diary.
Publication Name: Southern Quarterly
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0038-4496
Year: 2006
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William Alexander Percy's 'Lanterns': A reply from a Mississippi Sharecropper's
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William Alexander Percy, a poet, lawyer and planter enjoyed success in his autobiography, Lanterns on the Levee: Recollections of a Planter's Son (1941) and is regarded as a racist in the modern world. A scholar in the area of autobiographical literatures demonstrates that Percy's observations regarding African American are wrongheaded and suggest the way narrative itself finally determines the author's view of himself and the culture he putatively defends.
Publication Name: Southern Quarterly
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0038-4496
Year: 2005
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