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Lyrics From Cotton Land

By John Charles McNeill’
 Stone & Barringer; Charlotte, North Carolina; 1907 (First edition)

John Charles McNeill’s poetry features the landscapes of the Sandhills of North Carolina. The settings for his poetry include Scotland, Richmond, Moore, Hoke, Cumberland, and Robeson counties. McNeill was skilled in the oral tradition of storytelling in regional dialect as well as in the use of conventional poetic forms. His work exemplifies the racist outlook of his time, origins, and social position and modern readers will find a number of them to be racially offensive. Because of his enormous popularity as a poet, achieved largely because of his regular contributions to The Charlotte Observer, he was elected a state legislator and was eventually named a Poet Laureate for the state. This book was published shortly after his untimely death in 1907.

Unusual presentation in red "bandana" cloth with an oval illustration of a black woman on the front cover. 189 pages with an additional page of advertising. Red endpapers. Illustrated with drawings by A.B. Frost, E.W. Kemble, and photographs by Mrs. W.O. Kibble.

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