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Aug 26, 2024 · Beverley Tucker (1784–1851) SUMMARY. Beverley Tucker was a law professor, an advocate of slavery and states’ rights, and a writer who is best known for his novel The Partisan Leader (1836), a prediction of civil war that proved remarkably prescient.
The Partisan Leader; a Tale of the Future (1836), published in two volumes, is the second and best-known of the three novels by Beverley Tucker, a law professor and an outspoken advocate of states’ rights, secession, and slavery.
Jul 8, 2021 · Introduction. View of the Initial Situation 1808-13. Schmitt writes, “the initial situation for our consideration of the problem of the partisan is the guerrilla war that the Spanish people waged against the army of a foreign conqueror from 1808 until 1813.
Chapter 1 The Sense of Impending: Nathaniel Beverley Tucker’s The Partisan Leader: A Tale of the Future; Chapter 2 Mary Chesnut’s Epic Time; Chapter 3 “I read my Mission as ‘twere a book’”: Temporality and Form in the Early African American Serial Sketch Tradition; Part II Performing Time; Part III Timing Time; Part IV Theorizing ...
A book published in 1836 and set in 1849, depicting a future where the southern states of the United States have seceded to form a confederacy. During the American Civil War it was republished separately in both the Union and the Confederacy.
Jun 7, 2019 · Future Imperfect: Nathaniel Beverley Tucker’s The Partisan Leader. In this special guest post, Dr Peter Templeton discusses a curious nineteenth-century American novel by a forgotten author. Imagine a world in which the South seceded, successfully, from the United States.
It's the tale of the Southern Secession--first published in 1836. In it, the Southern States secede from the United States of America, not in protest of the election of Abraham Lincoln, but rather over that of Martin Van Buren to a (snicker) third term.
