Voices of the Old South: Eyewitness Accounts, 1528-1861
Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1994. Very Good. Item #002379
ISBN: 0820315664
Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1994. First Paperback Edition (published simultanously in cloth). Signed by author with inscription to Emmett Curran. Octavo; xxix + 404pp. Three-color coated paper. Textblock clean and unmarked.
Documents by 78 eyewitness of the 16th-19th century Southern experience, some celebrated, many not. Includes statements from both Southern and Northern voices, as well as foreign travelers visiting the American South.
Author Allan Gallay received the Bancroft Prize in 2003 for his work on the Indian slave trade. Robert Emmett Curran, addressee of the inscription, is the renowned scholar of Southern topics at Georgetown University.
Price: $35.00