1857 H. R. HELPER. The Impending Crisis of the South. As Influential as Uncle Tom's Cabin. John Wesley by the Word

by the Word

A beautiful image evoking the influence of the American church

due to wartime paper rationing that remained in place until late 1946 (and a strict circulation control of all magazines)

but preliminary reports are now confirmed in the New=Yorker issue for December 1

1857 H. R. HELPER. The Impending Crisis of the South. As Influential as Uncle Tom's Cabin. John Wesley by the WordVery rare first edition, fourth thousand of Hinton R. Helpers classic and highly influential text from the run up to the Civil War. Hinton R. Helper, himself a southerner, believed the truest friends of the southern states were the anti slavery abolitionists in the population, that slavery was both a moral and economic curse to the land. His meticulously argued text was found so threatening, its distribution was banned in the south immediately after