Author: HELPER, Hinton Rowan
Title: Compendium of the Impending Crisis of the South
Description: 1860. HELPER, Hinton Rowan. COMPENDIUM OF THE IMPENDING CRISIS OF THE SOUTH. New York: A. B. Burdick, 1860. 214 pp. + 2 pp. publisher's advertisements. 8vo. original brown wrappers printed in black. Spine and corners slightly chipped, bottom rear corner wrapper throughabout p. 209 creased, light soil to wrappers. Ex-library with inkstamp to front wrapper. This is an abridgement of a controversial work, banned in the South, first published in 1857. This anti-slavery work (by a "poor white" from North Carolina) "vied in popularity and influence with Uncle Tom's Cabin." (Howes H400, Sabin 31270.). .

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