1841 CONFEDERATE OFFICER & PLANTATION OWNER. On Managing a Plantation and the Economy of Slave Labor Commentary

1841 CONFEDERATE OFFICER & PLANTATION OWNER. On Managing a Plantation and the Economy of Slave Labor CommentaryVery rare "Southern Planter" periodical with an important series of lengthy articles on the value and skill of "negro slaves" owned by Confederate soldier and friend of Stonewall Jackson who died at Appomattox. Stapleton Crutchfield [1835 1865] was the son of important Confederate plantation owners and Virginia politicians Oscar and Elizabeth Crutchfield, who presumably were the original owners of the present volume. They owned a large plantation in

“Last Thursday we had a scene that would have amused the little boys

John Janeway on the Duties of Masters and Servants

Hides me in His patient reign

but you suppose that they will have an end

1740 by Landells

as she goes before the breeze

assembling a volume of engravings and prints relative to the Reformation

There are no other other ex library markings anywhere in the volume

Of everlasting freedom for my thrall

and a couple of points of fading on boards

Sensing his deep personal piety and his sharp mind

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