Record #:

10958

Author(s):

Bishop, Owen

Abstract:

North Carolina author Hinton Rowan Helper's one best-seller, THE IMPENDING CRISIS: HOW TO MEET IT, brought him acclaim in the North and disdain in the South. His book dealt with the effect of slavery upon the three-fourths of the Southern whites who owned no slaves, and, therefore, could not benefit from the system of slavery. By 1860, over 142,000 copies were in print, and it was second in popularity only to UNCLE TOM'S CABIN.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 35 Issue 23, May 1968, p11-12, por

Subject(s):

Slavery; Authors, North Carolina; Helper, Hinton Rowan, 1829-1909