Robert Montgomery Bird's 1837 novel Nick of the Woods, set in late-eighteenth-century Kentucky, features a Quaker named Nathan Slaughter who is ridiculed by his fellow Anglo frontiersmen for his pacifism-in particular, for his (initial) refusal to fight the area's Indians, whom Bird represents as brutal in the extreme.
An edition of The Grammar Of Good Intentions
(2005)
The Grammar Of Good Intentions
Race And The Antebellum Culture Of Benevolence
New Ed edition
by Susan M. Ryan
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"Robert Montgomery Bird's 1837 novel Nick of the Woods, set in late-eighteenth-century Kentucky, features a Quaker named Nathan Slaughter who is ridiculed by his fellow Anglo frontiersmen for his pacifism-in particular, for his (initial) refusal to fight the area's Indians, whom Bird represents as brutal in the extreme."
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