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Title: Eneas Africanus

Author: Harry Stillwell Edwards

Release Date: August 31, 2010 [EBook #33594]

Language: English

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_Eneas Africanus_

_ENEAS_
AFRICANUS

_By Harry Stillwell Edwards_

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PUBLISHED AT MACON, GEORGIA
BY THE J. W. BURKE COMPANY
NINETEEN HUNDRED AND TWENTY

Copyright, 1920
The J. W. Burke Company

_Author's Preface_

Dear to the hearts of the Southerners, young and old, is the vanishing
type conspicuous in Eneas of this record; and as in a sidelight herein
are seen the Southerners themselves, kind of heart, tolerant and
appreciative of the humor and pathos of the negro's life. Eneas would
have been arrested in any country other than the South. In the South he
could have traveled his life out as the guest of his "white folks." Is
the story true? Everybody says it is.

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_Eneas Africanus_

Extract from the _Atlanta Constitution_ of October 12, 1872

WHO HAS THIS CUP?

MAJOR GEORGE E. TOMMEY ADVERTISES FOR HIS SILVER CUP.

Editor _Constitution_, Atlanta, Ga.

Dear Sir: I am writing to invoke your kind assistance in tracing an old
family negro of mine who disappeared in 1864, between my stock farm in
Floyd County and my home place, locally known as Tommeysville, in
Jefferson County. The negro's name was Eneas, a small, grey-haired old
fellow and very talkative. The unexpect