1914 · Emory, VA
by Henry, H.M.
Emory, VA: The author, 1914. First edition, a self-published version of the author's Vanderbilt dissertation. 8vo. x, 216 pp. Covers slave codes, the patrol system, courts and punishment, runaway slaves, the seamen acts, insurrections, abolition, manumission, free Negroes, and other topics. OCLC locates five copies of this edition (California State Library, North Carolina, Ocean State Libraries, Toronto Public, British Library). Several marginal pencil annotations, else very good. Original printed brown wrappers (short tear in front wrapper, some wear at extremities). (#8083).
(Inventory #: 60975)