Antique 1884 YAZOO: Picket Line of Freedom signed by author A. T. Morgan 1st/1st for Sale

Antique 1884 YAZOO: Picket Line of Freedom signed by author A. T. Morgan 1st/1st For Sale

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Antique 1884 YAZOO: Picket Line of Freedom signed by author A. T. Morgan 1st/1st:
$1199.00

Full title: Yazoo; or, on the Picket Line of Freedom in the South. A Personal Narrative by A. T. Morgan.
Yazoo is a rare and revealing firsthand account of Reconstruction told by a Wisconsin carpetbagger and devout abolitionist who moved to Mississippi in pursuit of wealth and social reform.
Seeking economic opportunity for himself as well as a chance to bring about a new social order in the defeated South, Albert T. Morgan leased a cotton plantation in Yazoo County, Mississippi, in1865. His farming venture failed —as did his efforts to secure interracial democracy —but his decade spent in Yazoo County brought opportunities to serve in elected office as a constitutional delegate, state senator, and county sheriff and supervisor.
The decade also gave him an intimate understanding of the trials and tribulations associated with the African American freedmen's struggle for equality. In 1884, nine years after fleeing the state under threat of death, Morgan published Yazoo at his own expense to explain the difficulties he and his compatriots faced in Mississippi.
Washington, DC: Published by the Author, 1884. 1st ed. 512pp. 22 cm. Original dark green cloth covered boards with gold lettering on the front and the spine, embossed wave designs front and back, embossed design on back. Errata bound in to table of contents.
Gift inscription inked on the first page of the preface by the author. Pages clean though lightly tanned. Binding tight and square, corners kissed and wear on the tips. Some wear visible at the head and the tail of the spine. Ex-library with stamps and a paste-down withdrawn sticker on front free endpaper, card pocket in back of book. Bookplate from Fred & Maude De Armond. Closed one inch tear and triangular hole in page facing title page. Please see photos.

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