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The Southern Plantation Overseer as Revealed in his Letters. [Inscribed and Signed by Author]
The Southern Plantation Overseer as Revealed in his Letters. [Inscribed and Signed by Author]
The Southern Plantation Overseer as Revealed in his Letters. [Inscribed and Signed by Author]

The Southern Plantation Overseer as Revealed in his Letters. [Inscribed and Signed by Author]

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Study of ante-bellum Southern cotton plantations examined through letters found in the correspondence of U.S. President James Knox Polk. The letters discuss agricultural and economic aspects of the overseerships of several individual planters. Includes an overview of the work, duties, and contractual obligations of the overseer and a chapter on the plantation experience of President Polk. This copy inscribed by the author to Anne Preston Bridges, possibly the Raleigh, North Carolina playwright, founder of the Raleigh Little Theatre, and author of the Broadway Southern comedy Coquette, which, when made into a film, won Mary Pickford her only Oscar.¹

Description: The Southern Plantation Overseer as Revealed in his Letters. [Inscribed and Signed by Author]

Northampton, Mass.: Printed for Smith College, 1925. First Edition. [2], vii, 280pp. + plates. 8vo. Cloth spine, paper covered boards. Inscribed and Signed by the Author. Illustrations. Partly unopened. Spine with soiling, its paper spine label rubbed; small crack to front hinge; a very good tight and clean copy.

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Note. 1. Ku Klux hip hop hits home - INDY Week [Ku Klux hip hop hits home, Was Birth of a Nation born in Raleigh? by Godfrey Cheshire] accessed online.

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