The Heroic Slave: (Large Print Edition)

LARGE PRINT EDITION: THE State of Virginia is famous in American annals for the multitudinous array of her statesmen and heroes. She has been dignified by some the mother of statesmen. History has not been sparing in recording their names, or in blazoning their deeds. Her high position in this respect, has given her an enviable distinction among her sister States. With Virginia for his birth-place, even a man of ordinary parts, on account of the general partiality for her sons, easily rises to eminent stations. Men, not great enough to attract special attention in their native States, have, like a certain distinguished citizen in the State of New York, sighed and repined that they were not born in Virginia. Yet not all the great ones of the Old Dominion have, by the fact of their birthplace, escaped undeserved obscurity. By some strange neglect, one of the truest, manliest, and bravest of her children, --one who, in after years, will, I think, command the pen of genius to set his merits forth, holds now no higher place in the records of that grand old Commonwealth than is held by a horse or an o

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Griffiths, Julia
Published: 11/02/2017
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781979376686
Large Print
Pages: 182
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.39d