Item #33904 A Year of Wreck: A True Story by A Victim. George Benham, Reconstruction.

A Year of Wreck: A True Story by A Victim

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1880.

First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. vi, 7-472 pages. 8 pages ads. Green pebble cloth hardcover with gilt stamped title on spine. Light shelf wear to the green cloth. Light foxing to the foredge.

This a novel subject is the movement of people in the South causing Economic hardships. The author gives figures showing the deficit of immigration. He states in the preface: "Herein also are to be found the reasons why the wrecks of that superb stream of immigration which flowed into the South at the end of the war mostly drifted back to the North within the year, leaving the stream dry." Very good. Item #33904

Price: $40.00

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