[SOUTHERN AMERICANA] A YANKEE AMONG THE NULLIFIERS, AN AUTO-BIOGRAPHY

Elnathan Elmwood [Asa Greene]

New-York: William Pearson, 1833.

Second Edition. 24mo; in the publisher’s paper covered boards backed in green cloth, with a partial paper label to the spine; 143 pages; some damping and scattered foxing throughout. ~~Interestingly, Asa Green “became the first American to apply the term [autobiography] to a ‘narrative of [his] life written by himself,’ when he published ... A Yankee Among the Nullifiers, an Auto Biography, under the pseudonym Elnathan Elmwood” [see Arnold Krupat, For Those who Come After: A Study of Native American Autobiography, p. 40]. An uncommon record of contemporary life in Carolina, under the guise of a fictitious account of Yankee Elnathan Elmwood’s travels to South Carolina where he runs fro Congress; his speeches inspire a group of slaves to lead an uprising. (Wright 1068).

Good binding.
Item #299809

Price: $400.00