Summary of Richard Grant's The Deepest South of All

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Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 I met Regina Charboneau, a chef and cookbook writer, at the Hot Tamale literary-culinary festival in Mississippi. She had moved back to her hometown of Natchez, Mississippi, after selling everything in San Francisco.
#2 I visited the site of the second-largest slave market in the Deep South, known as the Forks of the Road. The markers were informative and disturbing, with illustrations of slaves, slave traders, and newspaper advertisements for the human commodity.
#3 The town of Natchez, Mississippi, is home to the greatest concentration of antebellum homes in the American South.
#4 I visited Natchez, Mississippi, and met with Regina, the owner of King’s Tavern. She warned me about the town’s insularity and its culture of eccentricity.

Sujets

• Travel
• Essays
• Travelogues

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 01 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669396628
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Richard Grant's The Deepest South of All
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I met Regina Charboneau, a chef and cookbook writer, at the Hot Tamale literary-culinary festival in Mississippi. She had moved back to her hometown of Natchez, Mississippi, after selling everything in San Francisco.

#2

I visited the site of the second-largest slave market in the Deep South, known as the Forks of the Road. The markers were informative and disturbing, with illustrations of slaves, slave traders, and newspaper advertisements for the human commodity.

#3

The town of Natchez, Mississippi, is home to the greatest concentration of antebellum homes in the American South.

#4

I visited Natchez, Mississippi, and met with Regina, the owner of King’s Tavern. She warned me about the town’s insularity and its culture of eccentricity.

#5

I visited Regina’s house, and she explained to me that she liked to call her home the only antebellum house in Natchez with a self-portrait of Ronnie Wood, the guitarist for the Rolling Stones.

#6

The Pilgrimage Garden Clubs are a group of women who raise money, prestige, and tourism for the town. They operate the mansion as a house museum for tourists, and they hold balls and parties there.

#7

I was invited to a dinner at the mansion, where I met many elderly women who were members of the Pilgrimage Garden Club. They were a glittering group of grandes dames in their eighties and nineties, and I was amazed to hear that they still went to work every day.

#8

In Natchez, I noticed that the men rarely interrupted the women, and when they did, the women would usually just ignore them. The men would often just fade into the background.

#9

I wanted to know what it was like to be enslaved in Natchez, and how the town got to be the way it is. There were visual reminders of slavery everywhere in Natchez, from the slave-market site to the antebellum homes with their accompanying slave quarters.

#10

The only Natchez slave whose life we know in detail is Prince, because his story was so extraordinary. He was known as Prince, and his portrait hangs on the wall of the mayor’s office at City Hall.
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