1860 SLAVERY Slave Trade Civil War Impending Crisis of the South

The Impending Crisis of the South and How to Meet It, Census and Statistics

Slave Count per Southern State, Value of Slaves per State, Loads of Statistics, and much more

Taken from Leicester, NC library during the Civil War and was gifted to  Emory Washburn, Supreme Court Justice

By Hinton Rowan Helper, Abolitionist

Hinton Rowan Helper from December 27, 1829, to March 9, 1909, was an American Southern critic of slavery during the 1850s.

In 1857, he published a book that he dedicated to the non-slaveholding 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.

Book Owners name on the Past down paper, Emory Washburn
Emory Washburn's life span from February 14, 1800, to March 18, 1877, was a United States lawyer, Supreme Court Justice, Massachusetts Governor, politician, and historian and faculty of Harvard.

His history of the early years of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court is still considered a foundational work on the subject.