Author: PEARCE, Haywood J., Jr.
Title: Benjamin H. Hill: Secession and Reconstruction
Description: New York, Negro Universities Press, 1969. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. ix, 330pp. Fine. Pristine, tight facsimile of the 1928 first edition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press) of this biography of the controversial Georgia senator and representative and Confederate senator (1832-82) -- this copy with choice addition, for tipped in facing the title page is a unique frontispiece, a fine steel-engraved head-and-shoulders portrait of Hill with facsimile signature beneath. Photographer and engraver are credited in the fint print, though it is not dated but clearly of mid-19th century vintage. .

Keywords: Black History


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