In a message dated 2007/12/15 9:24:55 AM Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes: > >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 ************************************** See AOL's top rated recipes (http://food.aol.com/top-rated-recipes?NCID=aoltop00030000000004) ______________________________________ To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html