...their appearance are really frightful." " These are the so-called pine-landers of Georgia, I suppose the most degraded race of human beings claiming an...lazy, ignorant, brutal, proud, penniless savages, without one of the nobler attributes which have been found occasionally allied to the vices of savage...

...population in the midst of which they lived. These are the so-called pine-landers of Georgia, I suppose the most degraded race of human beings claiming an...lazy, ignorant, brutal, proud, penniless savages, without one of the nobler attributes which have been found occasionally allied to the vices of savage...

...Plantation, (to wit, that of her husband :) "They are, I suppose, the most degraded race of human beinga claiming an Anglo-Saxon origin, that can be found...lazy, ignorant, brutal, proud, penniless savages, without one of the nobler attributes that have been found occasionally allied to the vices of savage...

...Kemble says in her Journal, page 146: These are the so-called " pine landers " of Georgia, — I suppose the most degraded race of human beings claiming an...origin that can be found on the face of the earth. They own no slaves, for they are almost without exception abjectly poor, and will not work, for that...

...animal. "They are, I 54 A FEUDAL CIVILIZATION suppose," wrote Mrs. Fanny Kemble Butler before the war, "the most degraded race of human beings claiming an...lazy, ignorant, brutal, proud, penniless savages." They squatted and stole and starved on the outskirts of society.1 Such a civilization was essentially...

...country." Fanny Kemble Butler, writing of the Georgia poor whites of a century later, described them as "the most degraded race of human beings claiming...lazy, ignorant, brutal, proud, penniless savages." The Sunday-school and the chautauqua, of course, have appreciably mellowed the descendants of these...

...country." Fanny Kernble Butler, writing of the Georgia poor whites of a century later, described them as "the most degraded race of human beings claiming...Anglo-Saxon origin that can be found on the face of the earth—filthy, lazy, ignorant, brutal, proud, penniless savages." The Sunday-school and the chautauqua,...

...Sidelights, p. 24. 30 See the next note. « Frances A. (Kemble) Butler wrote that the poor white class was " the most degraded race of human beings claiming an...filthy, lazy, ignorant, brutal, proud, penniless savages without one of the nobler attributes which have been found occasionally allied to the vices of savage...

...Sidelights, p. 24. 30 Sec the next note. 31 Frances A. (Kemble) Butler wrote that the poor white class was " the most degraded race of human beings claiming an...filthy, lazy, ignorant, brutal, proud, penniless savages without one of the nobler attributes which have been found occasionally allied to the vices of savage...

...recollections of antebellum Georgia included this description of the hill-country folk: "[they are] the most degraded race of human beings claiming an...- filthy, lazy, ignorant, brutal, proud, penniless savages."17 The visual counterpart of the literary stereotype is apparent in^i Couple of "Crackers"...