The Southern Plantation Overseer as Revealed in his Letters
Northampton, MA: Printed for Smith College by the Southworth Press, 1925. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding. Item #7324
Octavo. viii, 280, [1] pp., facsims. First edition. As issued in cloth backed boards with publisher's glassine wrapper. Spine is just a trifle sunned, otherwise, a remarkably bright copy in a surprisingly well preserved glassine wrapper; contents clean and binding sound. This is the fifth volume in a series of publications celebrating the 50th anniversary of Smith College. Bassett in his preface describes the collection of letters here first published: "All the letters in this book deal with the affairs of an ante-bellum Southern cotton plantation. Most of them were written by plantation overseers, and all of them closely concerned. All of them are taken from the Correspondence of James Knox Polk, president of the United States from 1849 to 1853. . . . Taken together they constitute a remarkably full and interesting record of some phases of the life on a cotton plantation in the old regime" (p. iii).
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