Frederic Bancroft
Slave Trading in the Old South (1931)
new introduction by Michael Tadman
$18.95

A monumental assault on the myths that southern masters rarely sold slaves, kept slave families intact, and disdained slave traders as outcasts, Slave Trading in the Old South presents a wealth of documentary evidence about the peculiar institution and draws on invaluable interviews with former slaves. Michael Tadman's introduction shows how Bancroft's treatise reflects the social and racial views of a proud heir to the abolitionist legacy and connects the pathbreaking work to recent analyses of the commerce in slaves.

Sherwood Bonner
Like Unto Like (1878)
new introduction by Jane Turner Censer
$14.95

A southern twist on the intersectional "romance of reunion" plot that was popular in northern fiction after the Civil War, Like Unto Like is a fascinating Reconstruction text. Jane Turner Censer's introduction recognizes Bonner as a precursor to Ellen Glasgow and Kate Chopin in her feminist critique of southern society and as a ground-breaker in her examination of white southerners' racial attitudes and her attempt to create a variety of African American characters.

Henrietta Buckmaster
Let My People Go: The Story of the Underground Railroad
and the Growth of the Abolitionist Movement (1941)
new introduction by Darlene Clark Hine
$16.95

Combining assiduous research into historical events and personalities with fictional invention of conversations and physical descriptions, Let My People Go presents a sweeping narrative of the end of slavery. Darlene Clark Hine's introductory essay emphasizes the moral vision that led Buckmaster to place African Americans at the center of her drama and to accentuate the Biblical resonances of the struggle for emancipation.

John E. Cairnes
The Slave Power: Its Character, Career, and Probable Designs (1862)
new introduction by Mark M. Smith
$24.95

The Slave Power, John E. Cairnes's seminal work on slavery, was widely acclaimed upon publication in 1862 as a brilliant attempt both to explain the essential cause of the American Civil War and to shape European policy concerning the struggle. It remains among the most important works on the political economy of Southern slavery. When Cairnes—one of the nineteenth century's preeminent classical liberal economists—characterized Southern slavery as inefficient and backward, his opinions carried enormous weight, earning him applause in the North and castigation in the slave-holding South.

Jesse T. Carpenter
The South as a Conscious Minority, 1789-1861:
A Study in Political Thought (1930)
new introduction by John McCardell

An examination of a central problem in southern history by a prominent political scientist, The South as a Conscious Minority not only traces the road to secession but points up the relationship between different academic disciplines. As John McCardell observes in his introduction, Jesse T. Carpenter's study followed an approach fundamentally different from contemporary trends in historiography but nevertheless earned respect across fields and continues to demonstrate today the benefits of cross-disciplinary communication.

Arney R. Childs
Rice Planter and Sportsman: The Recollections of J. Motte Alston, 1821–1909 (1948)
new introduction by Frank Burroughs
$14.95

This lively memoir offers a candid look into the daily life of a Low Country South Carolina family, as well as commentary and opinion about such matters as rice cultivation, slavery, and the sporting life. J. Motte Alston's memoirs, originally numbering more than five hundred pages, were never intended for official publication. Alston wrote for his grandson, who was fascinated by his family's personal history and how it fit into the larger context of South Carolina and the southern region.

Thomas D. Clark
The Southern Country Editor (1948)
new introduction by Gilbert C. Fite
$14.95

Based on reading in almost two hundred newspapers from the end of the Civil War to the Great Depression, The Southern Country Editor vividly captures the feel of life in the rural South. Historian Avery Craven observed at the initial publication that reading the book was "like sitting down to a meal of turnip greens, black-eyed peas and corn bread, with a glass of butter milk on the side." Gilbert C. Fite's new introduction identifies the distinctive concerns of southern country editors and situates Clark's work amid the disappearance of the rural world he described and cherished.

Margaret L. Coit
John C. Calhoun: American Portrait (1950)
new introduction by Clyde N. Wilson
$19.95

"With the possible exception of George Washington," observes Margaret L. Coit, "no American statesman has been more thoroughly dehumanized than John C. Calhoun." John C. Calhoun: American Portrait recovers the complex personality obscured by the legend of "the cast-iron man" while at the same time contributing to the recognition of Calhoun as a major figure in American political thought. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for biography, Coit's profile has long been admired both by scholarly specialists and by general readers.

William Elliott
Carolina Sports by Land and Water (1846)
new introduction by Theodore Rosengarten
$14.95

Set in the exotic South Carolina lowcountry, planter William Elliott's vivid hunting and fishing tales preserve a bounty of natural history. As Theodore Rosengarten shows in his sensitive introductory essay, Carolina Sports by Land and Water also expresses the anxieties of a southerner who understood that his way of life was bound up with a fragile environment and who recognized the social tensions dramatically revealed by his aristocratic avocations.

Maurice S. Evans
Black and White in the Southern States: A Study of the Race Problem in the United States from a South African Point of View (1915)
new introduction by George M. Fredrickson
$18.95

Reprinted here for the first time since its publication in 1915, Black and White in the Southern States by Maurice S. Evans, a British immigrant to South Africa in 1875 and a founder of the Union of South Africa in 1910, is one of the earliest studies in comparative race relations and the first to connect the experience of the American South experience to that of South Africa. Evans, a perceptive observer and a surprising critic of American race relations, was an objective chronicler of the South during the segregation era.

DuBose Heyward
Mamba's Daughters: A Novel of Charleston (1929)
new introduction by Don H. Doyle
$16.95

The comical and touching tale of a plantation refugee's struggle to enter the ranks of African Americans who work for the white Charleston elite, Mamba's Daughters offers a perceptive commentary on the pursuit of freedom and identity in a segregated society. Don H. Doyle's introduction situates in historical context Heyward's most ambitious work of social criticism and underscores the talent of the author best remembered for writing the novel from which George Gershwin created Porgy and Bess.

Duncan Clinch Heyward
Seed from Madagascar (1937)
new introduction by Peter A. Coclanis
$14.95

As much about race as about rice, Duncan Heyward's poignant memoir offers a rich portrait of Gullah culture and a heartfelt expression of the paternalist ideology of lowcountry planters as well as a detailed description of crop production and an informed analysis of the collapse of the proud South Carolina rice industry. Peter A. Coclanis's incisive introduction probes beneath Duncan Clinch Heyward's lament for his family and his class to present the revealing testimony of a fallen aristocrat.

Arthur H. Hirsch
The Huguenots of Colonial South Carolina (1928)
new introduction by Bertrand Van Ruymbeke
$24.95

First published in 1928, The Huguenots of Colonial South Carolina is the authoritative work on the Huguenot presence in one of the most important American colonies. Arthur H. Hirsch provides a thorough description and analysis of the Huguenot migration and settlement in South Carolina throughout the colonial period. He describes how the Huguenot communities and churches throughout the state were founded and how the first-generation Huguenots integrated into the religious, political, and socioeconomic fabric of early South Carolina.

Mary Elizabeth Massey
Ersatz in the Confederacy:
Shortages and Substitutes on the Southern Homefront (1952)
new introduction by Barbara L. Bellows
$14.95

Carefully documenting the desperate lack of supplies faced by Confederate civilians and the ingenuity that they demonstrated, Ersatz in the Confederacy anticipated by more than three decades the argument that the decisive crisis of southern nationalism came not on the battlefield but in domestic confrontations with deprivation. Barbara L. Bellows's powerful introductory essay examines the challenges that Massey faced as a pioneering woman scholar and honors her achievement as a founder of the history of southern women.

Broadus Mitchell
The Rise of Cotton Mills in the South (1921)
new introduction by David L. Carlton
$18.95

Broadus Mitchell's The Rise of Cotton Mills in the South, has, for more than three-quarters of a century, been the premier and defining work on the first inklings on industrialization in the rural South. Mitchell's work focuses on the need for Southern industrialization, and became the model of interpertation for Southern growth and development.

Albert Burton Moore
Conscription and Conflict in the Confederacy (1924)
new introduction by William Garrett Piston
$18.95

Still the authoritative study of the Confederate draft, Conscription and Conflict in the Confederacy explores the ironic resort of the South to the most powerful tools of centralized government while flying a banner of states' rights. As William Garrett Piston points out in his new introduction, the candid acknowledgment of substantial southern discontent with the cause of the Confederacy informing Moore's careful assessment makes his work an important landmark in the evolution of regional attitudes toward the past.

Albert T. Morgan
Yazoo; Or On the Picket Line of Freedom in the South (1884)
new introduction by Joseph Logsdon
$29.95

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, in 1865. 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.

Josephine Pinckney
Three O'Clock Dinner (1945)
new introduction by Barbara L. Bellows
$21.95

First published in 1945 to international acclaim and winner of the Southern Authors Award, Three O'Clock Dinner is Josephine Pinckney's best-selling novel about an ill-fated marriage on the eve of World War II. This powerful tale written by a consummate Charleston insider and set in the historic city resonates with universal appeal by daring to touch on topics that had been taboo. Mortified when their son "Tat" elopes with the henna-hairied daughter of the Hessenwinkles, an especially galling bourgeois clan, the Redcliffs are determined to respond with civility. They invite their son, his new wife, and her family for Sunday dinner, served at the traditional time of three in the afternoon. After mint julep aperitifs, dinner claret, and Madeira toasts, a chance remark ignites the novel's climax amid a flurry of raised voices, hurt feelings, and broken china.

Elizabeth Allston Pringle
A Woman Rice Planter (1913)
new introduction by Charles Joyner
$16.95

Elizabeth Allston Pringle's record of her efforts to regain the wealth and position held by her family before the Civil War is a a powerful account of a woman's struggles in a male-dominated society and a rich source of opinionated but nonetheless revealing commentaries on African American folklife. More than one hundred pen-and-ink sketches by Charleston artist Alice R. Huger Smith and a new introduction by Charles Joyner make A Woman Rice Planter an even more evocative portrait of the Carolina Low Country in a troubled time.

Arthur F. Raper
new introduction by Louis Mazzari
$14.95

Arthur Raper, in Preface to Peasantry, aims to explore many of the longlasting consequences of the South's racial caste system and its economic stagnation. An unpopular work at its publication, Raper holds that because physical and psychological treatment of black tenant farmers will ultimately result in the perpetuation of a peasant class, preventing any type of social, economic, or cultural progression. Thus, at the height of the New Deal, Raper suggests methods of federal planning to correct these ills.

Ben Robertson
Red Hills and Cotton: An Upcountry Memory (1942)
new introduction by Lacy K. Ford, Jr.
$12.95

Suffused with Ben Robertson's deep affection for his native upcountry South Carolina, Red Hills and Cotton demonstrates the journalist's knack for finding the extraordinary stories of seemingly humble folk. Robertson expresses his loyalty to the South both in his tributes to its best traditions and his criticisms of the shortcomings of the region. Lacy K. Ford's informative and entertaining introduction captures the essence of the author's restless and questioning--but unfailingly southern--spirit.

Francis Butler Simkins
Pitchfork Ben Tillman: South Carolinian (1944)
new introduction by Orville Vernon Burton
$29.95

Benjamin Ryan Tillman (1847–1918) accomplished a political revolution in South Carolina when he defeated Governor Wade Hampton and the old guard Bourbons who had run the state since the end of Reconstruction. Tillman and his movement aimed to expand the political control of the state to lower- and middle-class whites at the expense of African Americans and the state's former leaders. During his political ascendancy as governor and then United States Senator, Tillman introduced the state's dispensary system and shaped the state's 1895 constitution into a bulwark of white supremacy. His legacy was one of divisiveness between black and white and between whites of differing economic and geographical backgrounds.

George B. Tindall
South Carolina Negroes, 1877–1900 (1952)
new introduction by the author
$29.95

In this pathbreaking book, George B. Tindall turns to the period after Reconstruction before a tide of reaction imposed a new system of controls on the black population of the state. He examines the progress and achievements, along with the frustrations, of South Carolina's African Americans in politics, education, labor, and various aspects of social life during the short decades before segregation became the law and custom of the land. Chronicling the evolution of Jim Crow white supremacy, the book originally appeared on the eve of the Civil Rights movement when the nation¹s system of disfranchisement, segregation, and economic oppression was coming under increasing criticism and attack.

Lorenzo Dow Turner
Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect (1949)
new introduction by Katherine Wyly Mille and Michael B. Montgomery
$21.95

A unique creole language spoken on the coastal islands and adjacent mainland of South Carolina and Georgia, Gullah existed as an isolated and largely ignored linguistic phenomenon until the publication of Lorenzo Dow Turner's landmark volume Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect. In his classic treatise, Turner, the first professionally trained African American linguist, focused on a people whose language had long been misunderstood, lifted a shroud that had obscured the true history of Gullah, and demonstrated that it drew important linguistic features directly from the languages of West Africa.

Henry Clay Warmoth
War, Politics, and Reconstruction (1930)
new introduction by John C. Rodrigue
$14.95

Henry Clay Warmoth's War, Politics, and Reconstruction is a firsthand account of the Reconstruction era Governor's ambitions and political controversies. Warmoth's memoir gives an insight into the attitudes of post-war Louisianans, and of the social and political subversions that occurred in one of the defeated states of the Old Confederacy.

Charles H. Wesley
The Collapse of the Confederacy (1937)
new introduction by John David Smith
$16.95

In 1937, in his groundbreaking The Collapse of the Confederacy, the African American historian Charles H. Wesley (1891–1987) took a bold step in rewriting the history of the Confederate South by asserting that the new nation failed because of underlying internal and social factors. Looking beyond military events to explain the Confederacy's demise, Wesley challenged conventional interpretations and argued that, by 1865, the supposedly unified South had "lost its will to fight."

Bell Irvin Wiley
The Plain People of the Confederacy (1944)
new introduction by Paul D. Escott
$12.95

Widely hailed for his realistic portrayals of the common soldier of the Civil War, Bell Irvin Wiley upset carefully cultivated, deeply held southern myths about the Lost Cause with the 1944 publication of The Plain People of the Confederacy. His engaging and timeless look at the Confederate experience of soldiers, African Americans, and women also sparked a debate about the reasons for southern defeat that continues among historians to this day.

Harold D. Woodman
King Cotton and His Retainers:
Financing and Marketing the Cotton Crop of the South, 1800-1925 (1968)
new introduction by Harold D. Woodman

A thorough study of the cotton factorage system of the Old South and the crop-lien system of the postwar era, King Cotton and His Retainers traces the economic, political, and social implications of the processes by which the dominant southern staple came to market. Harold D. Woodman's new introduction explains the context in which he wrote his authoritative monograph, outlines its connections to the historiography of the past three decades, and identifies promising opportunities for new research.