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Monody, on the Death of Gen. Charles Cotesworth PinckneyPoetry | 1825
In 1825, a nineteen-year-old Simms published his first major work, Monody, on the Death of Gen. Charles
Cotesworth Pinckney, and thus took his initial step toward establishing
himself as one of the leading literary voices in Charleston. His work at this time, and especially in this
long poem, pointed to intellectual concerns that would follow him throughout
his literary career. Monody was published during one of
Simms’s first periods of sustained literary labor, his acting as editor of the Album: A Weekly Miscellany, a magazine
first published on 2 July 1825, and then every Saturday for the rest ... |
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Slavery in AmericaReviews/Essays | Thomas W. White | 1838 A month before the Battle of
Fort Sumter, Simms, in a letter to William Porcher Miles, asserted that the
system that was about to plunge the nation into the Civil War was
misunderstood: “In 1835 I took the
ground, in my pamphlet on the Morals of Slavery, that our Institution was not
slavery at all, in the usual acceptation of the term[…]but that the negro in
the South was a minor, under guardianship[…]was distinctly individualized,
& protected in all his rights & privileges, through a representative
master.”[1] The pamphlet to which Simms referred was Slavery ... |