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Harriet Jacobs and George W. Lowther
Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl “contains some incidents so extraordinary, that, doubtless, many persons, under whose eyes it may chance to fall, will be ready to believe that it is colored highly, to serve a … Continue reading →
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Bullying, 1840
January 16, 1840 Our “bloodthirsty season” has come again. You may recollect that I told you of a fight which occured between Christmas & the 22nd of Feb. last year.[1] I must now tell you of one which I fear … Continue reading →
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Tagged 1840s American youth violence, 1840s college life, 1840s college shooting, 19th century bullying, Albemarle Son: The Coming of Age Letters of Tristrim Lowther Skinner 1833-1840, College of William and Mary, documentary editing, history of bullying, Joseph Blount Skinner, Mary Maillard, Robert G. Scott, Skinner family Edenton, Tristrim Lowther Skinner, William P. Wood, Williamsburg Virginia
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A Map of Time and Blood: An Introduction to the Skinner Family Papers 1826-1850
Sample Chapter ~Beginnings: the Lowthers~ Thomas Harvey Skinner insists in his memoir of his brother – quite disingenuously – that Joseph Blount Skinner’s marriage to Maria Louisa Lowther had nothing to do with his success. Tom claims that the … Continue reading →
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