Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War
Boston: W. B. Clarke Company, 1906. 1st ed. Hardcover. map, index, ix, 345p. Original blue cloth. 20cm. Modest cover soil. Ends of backstrip and cover corners rubbed (some fraying and modest loss of cloth). Gift inscription in pencil on front free endpaper. Contents sound and clean. No jacket. Letters written between 1862 and 1868 by some of the New England abolitionists (identified in the book only by their initials) who came to the Sea Islands of South Carolina to devote themselves helping those who had been slaves as part of what came to be called the Port Royal Experiment. Very Good. Item #88165
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