Emma’s review of South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation > Likes and Comments
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I totally agree!
Couple big answers. One the water ways. The water ways in the north runs east and west while the south runs north and south. Opened the north for more industrial growth. 2nd the northwest ordinance partly written by Thomss Jefferson which banned slavery above the Mason Dixon with the newly acquired territory. Also, GA and SC. It's because of these two colonies that slavery wasn't banished altogether. Jefferson had bashed slavery in the declaration of independence but would never have been accepted by sc and GA
I too had high hopes for this book and actually liked the interweaving of personal and historical strands. Both have much to teach those of us who are not from the south or Black. Ultimately, though, the writing style defeated me. Some of the sentences just didn't make sense, and felt self-indulgent. Perhaps listening would have worked better.
I actually read this as an audiobook, read by the author (borrowed from the library!). Might be worth it to give it a whirl in that medium—it’s a tough read, I agree, but the intimacy of the author’s reading definitely helped me process how she was approaching this project.
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Couple big answers. One the water ways. The water ways in the north runs east and west while the south runs north and south. Opened the north for more industrial growth. 2nd the northwest ordinance partly written by Thomss Jefferson which banned slavery above the Mason Dixon with the newly acquired territory. Also, GA and SC. It's because of these two colonies that slavery wasn't banished altogether. Jefferson had bashed slavery in the declaration of independence but would never have been accepted by sc and GA
I too had high hopes for this book and actually liked the interweaving of personal and historical strands. Both have much to teach those of us who are not from the south or Black. Ultimately, though, the writing style defeated me. Some of the sentences just didn't make sense, and felt self-indulgent. Perhaps listening would have worked better.
I actually read this as an audiobook, read by the author (borrowed from the library!). Might be worth it to give it a whirl in that medium—it’s a tough read, I agree, but the intimacy of the author’s reading definitely helped me process how she was approaching this project.
