Allen Tate - American Writers 39: University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers
ISBN: 9780816651979
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Minnesota Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: History;

ONE of Allen Tate's recent essays, A Southern Mode of the Imagination, mentions an amiable old calumny against Kentucky: that it seceded from the Union after the fighting was over. Lincoln had promised not to disturb the institution of slavery in Kentucky if Kentucky stayed in the Union, and the promise was kept...

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