Research Catalog

Title

Lyrics from cotton land, by John Charles McNeill; drawings by A.B. Frost, E.W. Kemble, and photographs by A.M. Kibble.

Author

McNeill, John Charles, 1874-1907

Publication

Charlotte, N.C., Stone & Barringer [c1907]

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Kibble, A. M. (Alice Mary), 1870-1960
• Frost, A. B. (Arthur Burdett), 1851-1928
• Kemble, E. W. (Edward Windsor), 1861-1933
• Stone & Barringer Company publisher.

Description

xviii, 189 p. front. (port.) illus., plates; 20 cm.

Summary

This collection of poems from turn of the century North Carolina are written in local dialectic, and describes the post-bellum Southern perspective, particularly focusing on the African American experience as seen by a white author.

Subject

• To 1964
• African Americans in popular culture > North Carolina > Poetry
• African Americans > Social conditions > To 1964
• Racism > United States
• North Carolina > Social life and customs > Poetry

Genre/Form

Poetry

Note

• Partly reprinted from the Charlotte Observer and the Century magazine.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Mr. Nigger -- Spring -- Hardihood -- A protest -- Preacherly preference -- Springtime -- One sided -- 'T ain't long -- Bluffers -- Nigger demus -- Wishing -- The catfish -- Folk song -- Three hypotheses -- A modest ploughman -- The August meeting -- Salutation -- Po' baby -- 'Ligion -- A few days off -- Noontime -- Diseases -- A tar heel -- Every man's way -- A summer resort -- The trickster tricked -- Be shame -- A dream of you -- Environment -- 'Possum time again -- Noah's ark -- A monologue -- De three frosties -- Punishment -- Obedience -- Weather signals -- Utopia -- The raccoon -- The crow's shadow -- In a canoe -- Naming the animals -- The red shirts -- Poor old Ben -- For corn shuckings -- One day -- A hindrance -- A pallet sleeper -- Substitute -- Bedtime -- The persimmon tree -- "Believing where we cannot prove" -- Convenient theology -- Baby's noggin -- Black molasses -- Old aunt pleasant -- The crown of power -- The rejected Scotsman -- A soft snap -- Ambition -- The siesta -- The diediper -- Snakes -- Mysteries -- Baby's legs -- Grass -- The Varmint convention -- The Coon from the College town -- If -- Tot and Ted -- Boy's visions -- Holding off the calf -- When the calves get out -- Cats -- To Alfonso XIV -- A Tomtit messenger -- To one who is good -- Dew -- Race suicide -- The first flower -- Dead -- Viewpoints -- Old Jim Swink -- The doodle bug -- Autumn -- The three tots -- At the dance -- Selfishness -- Deserted -- Grandaddy-Long-Legs -- The castle builder -- To-Morrow -- A choice -- The iron door -- The tenant -- Horsemint -- In the woods -- To sleep.

LCCN

^^^08005888^

OCLC

2665687

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library