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

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.

Digitization of this thesis was made possible by a generous grant from the Jefferson Trust, 2015.

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