The Hireling and the Slave, Chicora, and Other Poems
Charleston: Mccarter & Co., 1856. Second Edition. Decorative Cloth. In brown blindstamped cloth, rubbed with a few surface tears to cloth. Ownership marks o endpaper, slight foxing else unmarked. 169pp. Quite popular in its time, this was perhaps the longest sustained poetic defense of slavery. Undoubtedly and emphatically racist, the..... More