...get no recruits. Mrs. Kemble says in her Journal, page 146 : These are the so-called " pine landers " of Georgia, — I suppose the most degraded race of...origin that can be found on the face of the earth. They own no slaves, for they are almost without exception abjectly poor, and will not work, for that...

...country." Fanny Kernble Butler, writing of the Georgia poor whites of a century later, described them as "the most degraded race of human beings claiming an...Anglo-Saxon origin that can be found on the face of the earth—filthy, lazy, ignorant, brutal, proud, penniless savages." The Sunday-school and the chautauqua,...

...thousand times to the senses and imagination than any extent of monotonous prairie"; its inhabitants were the "most degraded race of human beings claiming an...Anglo-Saxon origin that can be found on the face of the earth."2 Unfortunately, southern historiography has generally followed the same well-beaten paths taken...

...of her Journal of a Residence on a Georgia Plantation, (to wit, that of her husband :) " They are, I suppose, the most degraded race of human beings...Anglo-Saxon origin, that can be found on the face of tfye earth — filthy, lazy, ignorant, brutal, proud, penniless savages, without one of the nobler...