PROCEEDINGS OF A CONVENTION OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE PROPOSED UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH, at their Session, Held in Montgomery, Alabama, November 25th, 1857
Montgomery, AL: Barrett & Wimbish, Book and Job Printers, 1857. Soft Cover. Good binding. Item #7072
Octavo. 29, [3] pp. Removed from nonce volume, lacking wrappers. Vertical crease where the pamphlet was folded; light and scattered foxing; but largely a well preserved copy.
Founded July 4, 1857, University of the South was conceived of by its founders as a denominational university that would espouse southern ideals without northern interference. Or as James Otey put it, the university would "materially aid the South to resist and repel a fanatical domination which seeks to rule over us" (qtd in Deyle p. 206). Though it would be after the Civil War that the University commenced, this one of the early and foundational documents. Among other items in these proceedings, the name of the university was settled despite several proposed amendments. But the majority of this pamphlet is composed of various reports by the Committee on Location, with various locations named each with their merits. Scarce in the trade with only a half dozen institutional holdings according to OCLC 16962078. Delye, Steven. Carry Me Back: The Domestic Slave Trade in American Life.
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