Debunking the Yule Log Myth - The Disturbing History of a Plantation Legend

In this book historian Robert May takes readers on a detective caper as he corrects the historical record centered around enslaved people and a mythical freedom that the burning of a yule log was believed to have brought them during the holiday season.

List of contents

Contents
Introduction: The Biggest Sweet Gum We Could Find
Chapter 1: Colonel Openheart's Great Back-Log
Chapter 2: Prattville's Soggy Fixed Fact
Chapter 3: Uncle Ned's Big Laugh
Chapter 4: LaSalle Pickett's Deceits
Chapter 5: A Wizard's Revelations
Conclusion: I Allow Three Days at Christmas
Coda: Samuel Agnew's Christmas Eve

About the author

Robert E. May

Product details

• Authors: Robert E May, May Robert E.
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2024
• EAN: 9798881801786
• ISBN: 979-8-8818-0178-6
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 236 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 431 g
• Illustrations: 13 BW Photos, 2 Maps
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), c 1800 to c 1900, United States of America, USA, Relating to African American people, History of the Americas, Black & Asian Studies, HISTORY / African American & Black, American Civil War and Reconstruction (1861–1877)