Jacob's Cellar
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Author(s)
Richard G Sharp
ISBN / ASIN
1478350326
ISBN-13
9781478350323
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"Jacob's Cellar" is a saga of a family's perseverance and survival through the Civil War set against the hard trail of their immigrant ancestors' assimilation into American frontier life. The protagonists' strengths and weaknesses are revealed in part through their retelling of, and reaction to, family legends spun out under the stress of the impending catastrophe.
The novel follows neglected paths typical of ordinary rural dwellers in the Southern and border states, rather than the much-covered and romanticized culture of the anti-bellum elite. It touches on long-forgotten antecedents of the Civil War, such as "The War of the Regulation," a precursor to the Revolutionary War, in which colonial authorities drove largely non-English speaking farmers west from North Carolina into as refugees. In Missouri, the focal point of the story, their descendants would later be caught up in the patriotic Mexican War. Then, a decade later those troops would be the core of the militia converted by local authorities to Confederate Army units and decimated in the Civil War.
The novel thus concerns experiences of ordinary rural Americans caught on the wrong side of history in most respects, participants in a journey leading to the disintegration of old cultural identities and assimilation into the larger society. The protagonists' individual triumphs and tragedies are tales of survival through these overwhelming events.
The novel follows neglected paths typical of ordinary rural dwellers in the Southern and border states, rather than the much-covered and romanticized culture of the anti-bellum elite. It touches on long-forgotten antecedents of the Civil War, such as "The War of the Regulation," a precursor to the Revolutionary War, in which colonial authorities drove largely non-English speaking farmers west from North Carolina into as refugees. In Missouri, the focal point of the story, their descendants would later be caught up in the patriotic Mexican War. Then, a decade later those troops would be the core of the militia converted by local authorities to Confederate Army units and decimated in the Civil War.
The novel thus concerns experiences of ordinary rural Americans caught on the wrong side of history in most respects, participants in a journey leading to the disintegration of old cultural identities and assimilation into the larger society. The protagonists' individual triumphs and tragedies are tales of survival through these overwhelming events.
