Author: Rev. David Macrae
Title: Amongst the Darkies, and Other Papers
Description: Glasgow, John S. Marr & Sons, 1876. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 128p; 20p advertisements. A gilt-decorated, brick-red cloth hardcover book in very good condition. Edges lightly rubbed, corners a bit curled, and spotty stains along the right side of the back cover. Owner signatures on front free endpaper. Creases in pages 91-92. Occasional light smudges, but otherwise, text clean and binding secure. A scarce account of Reconstruction in the postbellum South. The first chapter recounts the author's trip to the South in 1868 and gives his views on emancipated blacks. .

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