A Charleston Family's Odyssey, 1828-1870
Edición de la obra Gentlemen Merchants
| Autor | Philip N. Racine |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Univ Tennessee Press |
| Fecha de publicación | July 30, 2008 |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 890 |
| Formato | Hardcover |
| ISBN-13 | 9781572336162 |
| ISBN-10 | 1572336161 |
| OCLC | 165956425 |
| LCCN | 2007031371 |
| Número de Cutter | R121g |
"Gentlemen Merchants preserves the correspondence between members of two wealthy slave-holding merchant families, the Gourdins and the Youngs, in nineteenth-century Charleston, South Carolina. Because the correspondence lasts over forty years, the letters provide a significant record of historical southern themes. Plantation-born urban dwellers, the correspondents comment deeply and widely on their own family history, religion in the South, slavery and race, business, secession, Civil War, and Reconstruction."--BOOK JACKET.