The life of Thomas Hart Benton
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"poverty and a poor outlook at home were the causes which led him to leave his student life in the old country and cast his lot with the North Carolina of that day. It is likely that he knew nothing in advance of the people among whom he was coming to live, and a man of his tendencies must have found but little in common with the turbulent and uncultivated people of that colony. North Carolina was often called the "refuge of runaways," and is well known to have been to a considerable extent settled by exiles from Virginia and other(...)"
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This author has done his research of sources and interviews with those who knew THB more thoroughly than other authors I have read on the subject of Senator Benton.