Gentlemen Merchants
Subtitle: A Charleston Family's Odyssey, 1828-1870
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press
Published: July 30, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 890
ISBN-13: 9781572336162
Subjects: General; History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877); United States - Civil War; United States - General; History; Biography / Autobiography; History: American
Description: "Gentlemen Merchants preserves the correspondence between members of two wealthy slave-holding merchant families, the Gourdins and the Youngs, in nineteenth-century Charleston, South Carolina. Because the correspondence lasts over forty years, the letters provide a significant record of historical southern themes. Plantation-born urban dwellers, the correspondents comment deeply and widely on their own family history, religion in the South, slavery and race, business, secession, Civil War, and Reconstruction."--BOOK JACKET.