" Southern Sketches "
By J. R. Thompson
Illustrated
Parts 1 - 4 ( complete )
7 3/4" x 10 7/8"
A four-part article on African Americans in the U.S. South , written in the post Civil War era.
Assembled from an 1870 publication ( dated " 1870 " at the upper margin of the pages ).
" Southern Sketches " comprises 8 pages and is illustrated.
Also included are several other articles on various subjects.
24 pages in total ( see the list below )
Good Condition.
Aged paper, a little staining.
Otherwise good.
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The Contents :
1. " Southern Sketches "
Four-part article ( comprising 8 pages in total ) describing African Americans in the US South in the years just after emancipation and the end of the Civil War.
( see the photos )
List of the " Southern Sketches " Illustrations :
1. " Going to Wife's house - old style " ( barefoot walker , carrying his shoes , with walking stick and sack strapped to his back )
2. " Going to Wife's house - new style " ( well dressed , with top hat and smoking a cigar [ and ignoring the " No Smoking " sign ] , buying a train ticket for travel )
3. " A Butting Match " ( two young African American boys butting heads like goats ; with amused and shocked observers )
4. " Dinner Time at the Tobacco Factory " ( dancing chewing tobacco factory workers at 12 noon ," dinner time - to them the happiest time of the day." )
5. " The Wood Sawyer " ( " Old Fred " the wood cutter carrying a saw-horse and a wood saw )
6. " Tricked " ( a superstitious African American man who embraces the supernatural influencing every-day life - ghosts , evil spirits , spell casting )
7. " Argufying a Pint " ( dialect ; an African American man vigorously " arguing a point " - making his opinion on a subject known to two other persons )
8. " Beginning at the Beginning " ( an African American youth, successfully learning to read )
9. " Beginning at the End " ( an old African American man, bewildered as he looks at a book )
10. " Comforts of Home " ( a seated African American man enjoying his yard , with chickens , his dog , and a pig under the table )
11. " Seeking " ( a forlorn African American man who is anxiously struggling to seek " divine truth " )
12. " Saturday Night " ( an African American woman combing her hair by candlelight , as she looks into a hand-held mirror on a Saturday night )
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2. " The Trinidad Pitch Lake "
( 1 page article by G. W. Greenwood on a visit to the Caribbean island of Trinidad in 1863 )
3. " The Dangerous Classes of New York and How To Improve Them "
( 2 pages ; part of a series of articles on Immigration into America )
4. " A Glimpse of Wyoming "
( 1 page article on the Wyoming Valley , a region of Northeastern Pennsylvania , with an illustration )
5. " A Day in Canton "
( 2 1/2 page article written by Walter A. Rose , who was living in Hong Kong in 1865 ; in 1866 he traveled to Canton [ Guangzhou , China ] and in this article describes his visit to the city )
6. " Charles Dickens "
( 2 page on the death of Charles Dickens , who had died 2 months before this was printed )
7. " A Chapter on Figures "
( about 1 page on a " Magic Square " - a square grid with a special arrangement of numbers [ mathematics ], with a diagram of the square )
8. " Pushmatahaw "
( 2 1/2 page article on the life of Pushmataha [ circa 1764 – December 24, 1824 ], the " Indian General ", was one of the three regional chiefs of the major divisions of the Choctaw people of Mississippi and Alabama in the 19th century. Many historians considered him the " greatest of all Choctaw chiefs ". He was highly regarded among Native Americans, Europeans, and white Americans, for his skill and cunning in both war and diplomacy.
Pushmataha led the Choctaw to fight on the side of the United States in the War of 1812. He negotiated several treaties with the United States.
In 1824, he traveled to Washington D.C. to petition the Federal government against further cessions of Choctaw land; he met with John C. Calhoun and Marquis de Lafayette. He died in the capital city and was buried with full military honors in the Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C. )
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153 years old.
Carefully packed for shipment to the buyer.