Item #7073 PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE PROPOSED UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH, at their Session, Held at Beersheba, Grundy County, Tenn., July 4th, 1858. Americana, Leonidas Polk University of the South. James H. Otey.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE PROPOSED UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH, at their Session, Held at Beersheba, Grundy County, Tenn., July 4th, 1858

Montgomery, AL: Barrett & Wimbish, Book and Job Printers, 1858. Soft Cover. Fair binding. Item #7073

Octavo. 24 pp. Removed from nonce volume, lacking wrappers; original stitching still present. Title page is detached with some staining; rear leaf is stained with a closed tear at the inner margin; silverfishing heavy on this leaf and much more limited on the preceeding leaves; some minor loss of text.

Founded the previous year, 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 is one of the early and foundational documents. Within these proceedings, the location of Swanee is resolved, several other resolutions as the structure of the University and it Board, also a reprinting of the legislative Act to establish the University. Scarce in the trade with only three institutional holdings according to OCLC 830343058. Delye, Steven. Carry Me Back: The Domestic Slave Trade in American Life.

Price: $400.00