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    Old Jabe's Marital Experiments 1908
    Old Jabe's Marital Experiments 1908
    Old Jabe's Marital Experiments 1908
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    Old Jabe's Marital Experiments 1908

    By Thomas Nelson Page

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
    Old Jabe's Marital Experiments 1908
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    Thomas Nelson Page

    Thomas Nelson Page was an American writer and lawyer, as well as the U.S. Ambassador to Italy during the presidency of Woodrow Wilson. Despite his family’s wealthy lineage—both the Nelson and Page families were First Families of Virginia—Page was raised largely in poverty. Based on his own experiences living on a plantation in the Antebellum South, Page’s writing helped popularize the plantation-tradition genre, which depicted an idealized version of slavery and presented emancipation as a sign of moral decline in society. Page’s best-known works include the short story collections The Burial of the Guns and In Ole Virginia, the latter of which contains the influential story “Marse Chan.” Thomas Nelson Page died in 1922.

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      Old Jabe's Marital Experiments 1908 - Thomas Nelson Page

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      Title: Old Jabe's Marital Experiments

             1908

      Author: Thomas Nelson Page

      Release Date: November 16, 2007 [EBook #23513]

      Last Updated: January 9, 2013

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OLD JABE'S MARITAL EXPERIMENTS ***

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      OLD JABE'S MARITAL EXPERIMENTS

      By Thomas Nelson Page

      Charles Scribner's Sons New York, 1908

      Copyright, 1891, 1904, 1906

      Old Jabe belonged to the Meriwethers, a fact which he never forgot or allowed anyone else to forget; and on this he traded as a capital, which paid him many dividends of one kind or another, among them being a dividend in wives. How many wives he had had no one knew; and Jabe's own account was incredible. It would have eclipsed Henry VIII and Bluebeard. But making all due allowance for his arithmetic, he must have run these worthies a close second. He had not been a specially good hand before the war, and was generally on unfriendly terms with the overseers. They used to say that he was a slick-tongued loafer, and the laziest nigger on the place. But Jabe declared, in defiance, that he had been on the plantation before any overseer ever put his foot there, and he would outstay the

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