Sep 15, 2011 - Sale 2253

Sale 2253 - Lot 286

Price Realized: $ 660
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
CONFEDERATE IMPRINT (SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) [Miles, John Warley.] The Relation between the Races at the South. 8vo, disbound; worn, library stamps and markings on title page. Charleston, SC: Evans and Cogswell, 1861

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What we call slavery, Miles insists is simply "the equitable relation between capital and labor which at present exists in the Southern States, to the manifest benefit of both the white and black races." One of the "two most explicit Confederate publications devoted to race"--Mintz, The Problem of Evil, page 122. Parrish & Willingham 5610; Sabin 48933. No other copies noted at auction since 1916.