Description
The 1860 edition of The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It by Hinton Rowan Helper.
Octavo, x, [11]-438pp. Publisher’s cloth, title in gilt on the spine. Stated “Fiftieth Thousand” on the title page. Includes 58 numbered tables. Light foxing and toning throughout. Loss of cloth at head of the spine. Solid hinges, text block.
Hinton Helper, a native of North Carolina, opposed slavery primarily on economic grounds and directed the book toward the non-slaveholding whites of the South. First published in 1857, “Impending Crisis” was banned in much of the South and became closely associated with the Republican campaign of 1860. (Howes H400) (Sabin 31271) (Blockson 9545)
