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Michael Bonham; or, The Fall of Bexar. A Tale of TexasAntebellum Period | Drama | John R. Thompson | 1852 “I
have also a very Texan drama unpublished in my desk,” Simms wrote to state
legislator, Armistead Burt, in January 1845, “which will make a rumpus, be
sure, if ever it reaches light upon the stage.”[1] That drama, Michael Bonham, was originally published pseudonymously (by “A
Southron”) in the Southern Literary
Messenger from February to June 1852.
Richmond publisher, John R. Thompson, released it as a small pamphlet
after its serial run in July 1852.[2] The drama is based on James Butler Bonham, a
South Carolina native and lieutenant in the Texas Calvary, who died ... |
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Slavery in AmericaAntebellum Period | Reviews/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 ... |