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...Lofts is a pretty girl from Norfolk, England. In Colin Lowrie (Knopf, $2.50), she puts herself into the person of a handsome man from Crosslochie, Scotland, sets out with him to escape the Jacobite disorders of 1745, falls into slavery in the West Indies, escapes again to become a planter in Virginia, there lures a nun from a convent and is wooed by an aggressive woman. All this she does with spirit, conviction and excitement...
ISAAC FRANKLIN, SLAVE TRADER AND PLANTER OF THE OLD SOUTH-Wendell Holmes Stephenson-Louisiana State University Press...
...supreme court of Mississippi reversed a Washington County Chancery judgment, declared: "According to the appellee's [Copeland's] own testimony, including his book account, there is no escape from the conclusion that he charged more than 20% per annum on the furnish account." Thereby, ruled the court, Planter Copeland forfeited not only interest but principal, owes Negro Taylor $2,279.91 (equal to the full value of his cotton without deduction for furnish...
...entirely given over to mountain climbing, Snow on the Equator has chapters on Mr. Tilman's experiences as a coffee planter and on his 3,000-mile bicycle trip from Uganda to the French Cameroons. A British soldier, he won a farm in Kenya in a lottery after the War, ran it for ten years, with intermissions of mountain climbing, big game hunting, gold mining. As a coffee planter he made a classic pact with his partner ("that master and man should not both get drunk on the same day"). He made a trip across Africa by bicycle...
Persecution made Watson stronger, but success beat him. In Congress he was despondent and ineffectual. He became wealthy, built a big house where he lived like an oldtime planter, but grew morose and vindictive, gradually stopped crusading for farmers and took up more sensational causes. Increasingly unhappy, he would interrupt his incoherent tirades against the Jews and Catholics with strange stories about assassins who were after him, about mysterious footprints found outside his mansion windows. At times he thought he was going insane. Beaten in one campaign after another, he was finally jeered off the stage in Atlanta, where...