{"product_id":"1886-blood-is-thicker-than-water-civil-war-reconstruction-letters-1st1st","title":"1886 - BLOOD IS THICKER THAN WATER - Civil War Reconstruction Letters, 1st\/1st","description":"  \u003cu\u003eBLOOD IS THICKER THAN WATER: A FEW DAYS AMONG OUR SOUTHERN BRETHREN — By HENRY M. FIELD — 1st Edition\/1st Printing, 1886 — Post-Civil War Reconstruction\u003c\/u\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Publisher: George Munro, New York (1886)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition from 1886, in very well preserved condition. The boards and binding are solid and tight, save for rubbing on the top part of the spine.  The pages are crisp and clean save for some spots of foxing on the first blank page and a spot of foxing on the title page. Henry Martyn Field (1822–1907) was an\nAmerican author and clergyman. BLOOD IS THICKER THAN WATER: A FEW DAYS AMONG OUR SOUTHERN BRETHREN consists of the author's letters that the author wrote to\nhis own newspaper in New York while he traveled throughout the South after the\nCivil War. From the preface: Northern readers were gratified by the pictures of\nthat New South which was taking the place of the Old; of its new life, new\nindustries, and new ambitions; while a deeper impression was made in the South\nitself. Please see below for more information on the author, Henry M. Field.\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eBiography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\"From 1854 to 1898, he was editor and for many years he was\nalso sole proprietor of The Evangelist, a New York periodical devoted to the\ninterests of the Presbyterian church. He spent the last years of his life in\nretirement at Stockbridge, where he died in 1907. ...He was the author of a series of books of travel, which\nachieved unusual popularity. His two volumes descriptive of a trip round the\nworld in 1875–1876, entitled From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn\n(1876) and From Egypt to Japan (1877), are almost classic in their way, and\nhave passed through more than twenty editions. Among his other publications are\nThe Irish Confederates and the Rebellion of 1798 (1850), The History of the\nAtlantic Telegraph (1866), Blood is thicker than Water or A Few Days Amongst\nour Southern Brethren !886)On the Desert - Recent Events in Eqypt. (1888), Old\nSpain and New Spain (1888), Bright Skies and Dark Shadows (1890), and Life of\nDavid Dudley Field (1898). Writing about race in Bright Skies and Dark\nShadows, Field claimed that segregation was part of human instinct which could\nnot be overcome through legislation...\" -Wikipedia \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Black Cat Caboodle","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67931764588788,"sku":"mnu1793030168836","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0827\/7763\/7108\/files\/1886---blood-is-thicker-than-water---civil-war-reconstruction-letters-1st1st_1.jpg?v=1793030176","url":"https:\/\/checkereddesignwear.shop\/products\/1886-blood-is-thicker-than-water-civil-war-reconstruction-letters-1st1st","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}