Description
First edition of The Sunny South by Professor Joseph H. Ingraham. Octavo, 526pp, [18pp catalogue]. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine, embossed initials on cover. In contemporary cloth slipcase. Some loss of cloth at bottom edge of spine, previous ownership label on front end paper. Generally clean text. Light dampstain to last two chapters near outer edge. (Howes I, 50). This work was reissued in 1880 under the title “Not A Fool’s Errand: Life and Experience of a Northern Governess in the Sunny South,” with the pseudonym Kate Conynghame replacing Ingraham. (Sabin 34776)
A detailed portrayal of life on tobacco, cotton and sugar plantations in ante-bellum Mississippi, from the perspective of a New England Episcopal clergyman. He believed that slavery was a benevolent institution. Ingraham died shortly after the publication of this book in 1860.
