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Excerpt from In the Land of Saddle-Bags Many of these adventurous exiles tarried for a generation in the coast colonies, and then went west under the same great impulse which affected all Americans after the Revolution. A smaller number seem to have found their way almost at once into the hills. The influence of slavery showed itself in the first half of this cen tury in driving many of these liberty loving families into the moun tains, and in walling them up there with a barrier of social repulsion. The line between mountain and lowland came to represent diversity of type and ideas, animosity even. And so made more effective the iso lation of the mountain folk. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.