In the War of 1812, the privateer Snap Dragon of New Bern, NC, captured British ships up and down the coast of the United States. Find our about her captain, Otway Burns, in the July “This Month in North Carolina History.”
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Snapping Up Prizes
Posted in History, Tar Heelia on July 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A medieval cure for antebellum nostalgia
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged ivanhoe, medieval tournaments, reconstruction, slaveholders on July 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“[Some former slaveholders] sought to ‘drown our troubles in a sea of gaiety,’ reviving the aristocratic social life of the antebellum years as if nothing had changed. “Tournaments straight out of ‘Ivanhoe,’ complete with knights adorned with lances and plumed helmets and ladies competing to be crowned Queen of Love and Beauty, made an incongruous [...]
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