1854 CONFEDERATE - SLAVERY. The Southern Series. The Rhetorical Manual. Includes Slave Speeches, &c. Inklings With all her untold riches

With all her untold riches

who otherwise speak and act amongst us

The whole in brown calf with raised bands

scenes of village life

He was a Union man

1854 CONFEDERATE - SLAVERY. The Southern Series. The Rhetorical Manual. Includes Slave Speeches, &c. Inklings With all her untold richesA very rare "Rhetorical Manual" designed to raise the perfect Southern Belle and Gentleman. The work, quite popular in its day, now scarce, provides a crucial snapshot into the kinds of speech and subjects of speech that dictated normal Southern discourse on the run up to the Civil War. And in it we are unsurprised to find Southern interaction with slaves and slavery heavily represented. There are more than 20 unique references to the subject,