John Hartwell Cocke of Bremo: Agriculture and Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South 1563 views

John Hartwell Cocke was an original. Apart from the generality and the crowd, he possessed a talent in pioneering new paths for old beliefs. It might be asked v-rhy, when our libraries fairly bulge with biographies of obscure men, when few facets of the Old South have not been illum:imed, should someone offer a study of General John Hartwell Cocke? Miss Martineau well suggests the worth of such individuals. General Cocke was a unique Southerner. In fact, taken in any context whatsoever, he was singular. And he had with his singularity a gift of some vision. He sought to be, again in the language of Miss Martineau, one of 11 the prophets and redeemers of their age and Country. He was a prophet and a pioneer in agriculture, in education, in Gothic architecture, Victorian piety, in temperance, and much else.

PHD (Doctor of Philosophy)

Southerner; John Hartwell Cocke; visionary

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1961-05-30