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  • THE CHILDREN OF PRIDE: A True Story Of Georgia And The Civil War. by Myers, Robert Manson, editor.
    Myers, Robert Manson, editor.
    THE CHILDREN OF PRIDE: A True Story Of Georgia And The Civil War.

    Edition: First printing in a first issue dustjacket.

    New Haven: Yale University Press, 1972. dj. Hardcover first edition - Letters of the Charles Colcock Jones family: they lived on a plantation in Liberty County Georgia and the letters cover the period 1854-1868 - antebellum plantation life, the oncoming secession crisis, the participation in the war of a wealthy family, and the earliest years of Reconstruction. Includes 275 pages of biographical sketches plus over 100 pages of index Winner of the National Book Award for history in 1973. The massive original hardcover edition. Not only one of the most extensive and comprehensive archive of letters from this era, but also one of the most valuable for the insight it gives into the lives of a wealthy, slave-owning family.…

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    New Haven: Yale University Press, 1972. dj. Hardcover first edition - Letters of the Charles Colcock Jones family: they lived on a plantation in Liberty County Georgia and the letters cover the period 1854-1868 - antebellum plantation life, the oncoming secession crisis, the participation in the war of a wealthy family, and the earliest years of Reconstruction. Includes 275 pages of biographical sketches plus over 100 pages of index Winner of the National Book Award for history in 1973. The massive original hardcover edition. Not only one of the most extensive and comprehensive archive of letters from this era, but also one of the most valuable for the insight it gives into the lives of a wealthy, slave-owning family. Includes an extensive "who's who" and 2 indexes -for free and sale. xxn. 1845 pp Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-300-012144.

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    Condition: Very good in a good dust jacket - corners bumped, chip to bottom edge of front cover of dj, plus some short closed tears. Pre-publication price of 14.95 still present on dj.

    Book ID: 91023
    Keywords: civil war, Civil War / War Between the States, family history, genealogy, georgia, national book award, plantation life, reconstruction, secession, slavery
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