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...