{"id":4543,"date":"2016-04-27T15:42:45","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T15:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lichen.csd.sc.edu\/sce\/entries\/holland-edwin-clifford\/"},"modified":"2022-08-08T19:52:42","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T19:52:42","slug":"holland-edwin-clifford","status":"publish","type":"entry","link":"https:\/\/www.scencyclopedia.org\/sce\/entries\/holland-edwin-clifford\/","title":{"rendered":"Holland, Edwin Clifford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyer, poet, editor. Born in Charleston, Holland was the son of John Holland and Jane Marshall. He became a noted lawyer and essayist, serving late in his life as editor of the Charleston <em>Times.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In 1813 Holland published his own collection of poetry, <em>Odes, Naval Songs, and Other Occasional Poems. <\/em>Influenced by the British Romantics\u2019 trend of sea poetry, Holland\u2019s writing often praised the U.S. Navy and emphasized patriotic themes. In \u201cThe Pillar of Glory\u201d he celebrates the United States\u2019 stand against Britain in the War of 1812: \u201cAlready the storm of contention has hurl\u2019d \/ From the grasp of Old England the trident of war \/ The beams of our stars have illumined the world \/ Unfurl\u2019d our standard beats proud in the air \/ Wild glares the eagle\u2019s eye \/ Swift as he cuts the sky \/ Marking the wake where our heroes advance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 1818 Holland published a poetic drama entitled <em>The Corsair: A Melo-Drama, in Four Acts. <\/em>The work is a conscious imitation of Lord Byron, the Romantic poet Holland most admired. The preface explains that his inspiration was Byron\u2019s poem \u201cThe Corsair.\u201d \u201cI never read a line, or recalled an image of this magnificent production,\u201d wrote Holland, \u201cwithout feelings of indescribable admiration.\u201d He likewise credited the South Carolina landscape for his poetic fervor: \u201cThere is a kind of <em>southern aspect <\/em>in our fortunes, absolutely necessary for the perfection of literary plans.\u201d <em>The Corsair <\/em>was performed at the Charleston Theatre in 1818.<\/p>\n<p>Holland\u2019s most enduring literary work was published anonymously. In response to growing turmoil over the issue of slavery, in 1822 he produced a pamphlet titled <em>A Refutation of the Calumnies Circulated Against the Southern and Western States, Respecting the Institution and Existence of Slavery Among Them. <\/em>Two subtitles further explain Holland\u2019s purpose: <em>To Which Is Added, A Minute and Particular Account of the Actual State and Condition of Their Negro Population; Together with Historical Notices of All the Insurrections That Have Taken Place Since the Settlement of the Country. <\/em>A slaveholder, Holland included both his own testimony as well as letters from many of his lawyer friends defending the humane treatment of South Carolina\u2019s slaves. He argued that slave life is significantly better than that of the English poor and warned against slave insurrections: \u201cA few hours would decide the conflict, and the <em>utter extermination <\/em>of the black race would be the inevitable consequence.\u201d Lamenting the existence of free blacks as \u201cthe greatest and most deplorable evil with which we are unhappily afflicted,\u201d Holland concluded with the harsh warning, \u201cLet it never be forgotten, that our negroes are truly the <em>Jacobins <\/em>of the country . . . the <em>common enemy of civilized society, <\/em>and the barbarians who would, if they could, become the destroyers <em>of our race.<\/em>\u201d Holland\u2019s work stands both as a historic record of slave insurrections and as a startling document of an educated citizen\u2019s honest, but obviously racist, beliefs. He died of yellow fever in Charleston on September 11, 1824, at age thirty.<\/p>\n<p>[Holland, Edwin C.] <em>A Refutation of the Calumnies Circulated Against the Southern and Western States, Respecting the Institution and Existence of Slavery Among Them. <\/em>1822. Reprint, New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969.<\/p>\n<p>Kettell, Samuel. <em>Specimens of American Poetry, with Critical and Biographical Notices. <\/em>3 vols. 1829. Reprint, New York: Benjamin Blom, 1967.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyer, poet, editor. Born in Charleston, Holland was the son of John Holland and Jane Marshall. He became a noted lawyer and essayist, serving late in his life as editor of the Charleston Times. In 1813 Holland published his own collection of poetry, Odes, Naval Songs, and Other Occasional Poems. 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