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1907 CORKS AND CURLS 3 Dr. Thomas Nelson Page R. THOMAS NELSON PAGE was born in Hanover County, Virginia, iAer 23d,1853. IlexwasthecndestsontnfhlathJo n Page and NHss E. B. N elson, his wife, who were both grand-children of Governor Thomas N elson, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, Commander of the Virginia forces at Yorktown, and Governor of Virginia. His father was the grand-son of John Page of Rosewell, Governor of Virginia, and the descendant of the distinguished family of Pages so long and well known in the history of Virginia. '7 1 The County of Hanover, being one of the strictly agricultural counties of the State, in which there were largeplantations, with a great number of slaves, the negro servants being thrown in constant contact with their masters, who them- selves were gentlemen of the highest birth and breeding, were of an unusally high order of intellect for the negro. The house servants and the servants around the place of that kindly and gentle disposition which no period will ever see again, and with ape-like facility which the negro has for acquiring manners and customs, took upon themselves much. of the polish and manner of their masters, the manner becoming mannerism, whilst the polish took upon itself the queerest sorts of shapes During young Page's childhood and early youth these old ante-belluln negroes still hung around the family mansion, and were a part and parcel of the house- hold. Page was therefore, as all southern boys are, made well acquainted with the best class of the Virginia negro, a class whose fidelity and loyalty to their masters, whose kindliness of nature, and whose superficial polish alluded to, made Hwnitnnque. likezleHrgn a boys heluulthernd.VHrghna1nannny;lmyknemr well the old Virginia negro butler, coachman and held hand and his playmates were the little clarkies to whom the new freedom was as yet only a dream. Of a quick and retentive mind, these early associations of young Page impressed themselves deeply upon him, and as subsequent events show, made him peculiarly lit to write the best description of the old Virginia darkey ever committed to paper. , , i l . l l l
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