![]() Congress has not since seen his like for eloquence and political passion.Īt Roanoke Plantation there still stands today the little building that was Randolph’s library and study, where the planter-statesman read everything. ![]() ![]() And solitude he found there in his simple cabin, among his negroes, “my only friends and companions,” until he died (though in Philadelphia) in 1833. Then there shifted to Roanoke Congressman John Randolph, the plantation’s proprietor, disappointed in men and measures, preferring solitude. From the Revolution until 1810, scarcely a white man set foot on that plantation.- black overseers and perhaps two hundred slaves grew tobacco and wheat after a fashion. Some miles beyond Charlotte Court House, in Southside Virginia, one may find his way to Roanoke Plantation, which seems almost as remote as it was at the beginning of the nineteenth century. This piece was originally printed in Southern Partisan magazine in 1986. ![]()
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