[AFRICAN-AMERICANA] First Days Amongst the Contrabands

BOTUME, Elizabeth Hyde

Verlag: Lee and Shepard, Boston, 1893

Octavo, 286pp., plus advertisements. A good copy in the publisher's brown cloth, with some abrasions to the edges, a few stray pencil markings internally, and some insect damage to a few leaves, but nothing disfiguring, and not affecting the readability. Front inner hinge thinly cracked. The term "contraband" in the title refers to the freed slaves, in this case those in the Sea Islands off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia. The author was a white Abolitionist from Massachusetts who, in 1864, traveled under the charter of the Freedman's Aid Association to the Sea Islands to teach newly freed slaves how to read and write, among other things. The islands had been a Union outpost since the early days of the war, and with many of the plantation owners having abandoned their vast property holdings, the area drew many self-freed slaves during the course of the conflict. Uncommon in the trade. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 11353

Bibliografische Details

Titel: [AFRICAN-AMERICANA] First Days Amongst the ...
Verlag: Lee and Shepard, Boston
Erscheinungsdatum: 1893
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Good
Auflage: First Edition.