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William Wells Brown Maps the South in My Southern Home: Or, The South and Its People

In the opening paragraph of the first chapter of My Southern Home: Or, The South and Its People (1880), William Wells Brown introduces his readers to a "mansion ... surrounded with piazzas, covered with grapevines, clematis, and passion flowers."1 "The Pride of China," he informs us, "mixed its oriental-looking foliage with the majestic magnolia, and the air was redolent with the fragrance of buds peeping out of every nook, and nodding upon you with a most unexpected welcome."2 Surrounded by this luxurious growth, Brown's story begins - a somewhat embellished return to the plantation at which he had been enslaved in his youth. However, in writing about this mansion towards the end of his ...

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