1854 CONFEDERATE - SLAVERY. The Southern Series. The Rhetorical Manual. Includes Slave Speeches, &c. Adventist For the Old School Presbyterian

For the Old School Presbyterian

The American Temperance Society

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cheaply produced and thus its rarity

[Formerly of Preston in New-England

1854 CONFEDERATE - SLAVERY. The Southern Series. The Rhetorical Manual. Includes Slave Speeches, &c. Adventist For the Old School PresbyterianA very rare "Rhetorical Manual" designed to raise the perfect Southern Belle and Gentleman. The work, quite popular in its day, now scarce, provides a crucial snapshot into the kinds of speech and subjects of speech that dictated normal Southern discourse on the run up to the Civil War. And in it we are unsurprised to find Southern interaction with slaves and slavery heavily represented. There are more than 20 unique references to the subject,