In a message dated 2007/12/15 9:24:55 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
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> >I don't think Edgar Allen Poe, who attended the University of  
> >Virginia,
> >was
> >from the Planter Class, unless you expand the definition of "Planter
> >Class"
> >to ALL white folks who were not sharecroppers and/or chopped cotton.

Randy,

E.A. Poe was an unofficial adoptee of  Richmond businessman Allen, who was 
also a partner of the Ellis brothers of Pedlar Mills, Amherst County.  Poe 
appears to have been raised (at least initially) with many of the privileges of 
these families.  The Ellis family estate in Amherst was not small by any means, 
and Poe did spend summers and vacations there periodically, visiting the Red 
Hill plantation (Amherst County, not the other Red Hill associated with Patrick 
Henry...)

Holly Mills
Amherst, VA


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