1854 CONFEDERATE - SLAVERY. The Southern Series. The Rhetorical Manual. Includes Slave Speeches, &c. Adventist The American Temperance Society

The American Temperance Society

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to spend their days in ignorance

cheaply produced and thus its rarity

For the Old School Presbyterian

1854 CONFEDERATE - SLAVERY. The Southern Series. The Rhetorical Manual. Includes Slave Speeches, &c. Adventist The American Temperance SocietyA 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,