Author : Hinton Rowan Helper
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781534609327
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)
Book Synopsis Oddments of Andean Diplomacy, and Other Oddment (1879) by by : Hinton Rowan Helper
Download or read book Oddments of Andean Diplomacy, and Other Oddment (1879) by written by Hinton Rowan Helper and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hinton Rowan Helper (December 27, 1829 - March 8, 1909) was an American Southern critic of slavery during the 1850s. In 1857, he published a book which he dedicated to the "nonslaveholding whites" of the South. The Impending Crisis of the South, written partly in North Carolina but published when the author was in the North, argued that slavery hurt the economic prospects of non-slaveholders, and was an impediment to the growth of the entire region of the South. Anger over his book due to the belief he was acting as an agent of the North attempting to split Southerners along class lines led to Southern denunciations of 'Helperism