Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Burdick, Asher B., 1826-1894
2. Tinson, William H.
3. Geo. Russell & Co., printer.
4. Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, bookplate.

Description

1. vi, 214 pages; 20 cm

Summary

1. This book condemns slavery, by appealed to whites' rational self-interest, rather than any altruism towards blacks. Helper claimed that slavery hurt the Southern economy by preventing economic development and industrialization, and that it was the main reason why the South had progressed so much less than the North since the late 18th century.

Donor/Sponsor

1. Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2021-2024).

Subject

1. Slavery
2. Southern States
3. Enslaved persons
4. Controversial literature
5. Slavery > Controversial literature
6. Slavery in the Bible
7. Intellectual life
8. Enslaved persons > Economic conditions
9. Impending crisis of the South (Helper, Hinton Rowan)
10. Bookplates (Provenance)
11. 1800-1899
12. United States
13. Slavery > Economic aspects
14. Economics
15. Southern States > Intellectual life > 19th century
16. Enslaved persons > Economic aspects > United States
17. Enslaved persons > Southern States > Economic conditions
18. Enslaved persons > United States > Controversial literature
19. Helper, Hinton Rowan, 1829-1909 > Impending crisis of the South
20. Slavery > United States > Controversial literature > 1860

Genre/Form

1. Bookplates (Provenance)
2. Controversial literature.

Contents

1. Free and slave states -- How slavery can be abolished -- Southern testimony against slavery -- Northern testimony -- Testimony of the nations -- Testimony of the Churches -- Bible testimony -- Testimony of living witnesses -- Free figures and slave -- Commercial cities: Southern commerce -- Facts and arguments by the wayside -- Southern literature.

Call number

1. Sc Rare 326.4-H (Helper, H. R. Compendium of the impending crisis of the South)

Note

1. ""Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1859 by A.B. Burdick, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York."-- t.p. verso.
2. "W.H. Tinson, Stereographer."-- t.p. verso.

Indexed in (note)

1. New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall.

Additional formats (note)

1. Also available on microfilm, Schomburg Center's researchers restricted to the microform copy in Sc Micro R-864 [pt. D], and in digital form.

Author

1. Helper, Hinton Rowan, 1829-1909, author.

Title

1. Compendium of the impending crisis of the South / by Hinton Rowan Helper.

Publisher

1. New York : A.B. Burdick, publisher, no. 145 Nassau Street, 1860.

Manufacturer

1. New York : Geo. Russell & Co., 1860.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Physical medium

1. 8vo. rdabf

Indexed in:

1. New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall., v. 4, page 3321, column 2, row 7

Additional formats

1. Also available on microfilm, Schomburg Center's researchers restricted to the microform copy in Sc Micro R-864 [pt. D], and in digital form.

Local note

1. The Schomburg Center's Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Book Division's copy is a gift, probably added to the collection when Catherine A. Latimer was the collection librarian; It includes the NYPL's bookplate of the "Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection," perforated stamp, and early processing markings of the original Schomburg Collection. Imperfect: water-stained, treated, reinforced title page, and library rebound in red cloth over boards and a gilt spine.

Source

1. Copy in Sc Rare 326.4-H (Helper, H. R. Compendium of the impending crisis of the South); Gift; G72404. NN

Connect to:

1. Google Books digital copy
2. Request Access to Special Collections Material

Chronological term

1. 1800-1899

Place of publication

1. United States New York (State) New York.

Added author

1. Burdick, Asher B., 1826-1894, publisher.
2. Tinson, William H.
3. Geo. Russell & Co., printer.
4. Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, bookplate.
5. Latimer, Catherine, 1896-1948 collection librarian.

Other form:

1. Online version: Helper, Hinton Rowan, 1829-1909. Compendium of the impending crisis of the South. New York : A.B. Burdick, 1860 (New York : Geo. Russell) (OCoLC)665190925

LCCN

1. 01003967

Research call number

1. Sc Rare 326.4-H (Helper, H. R. Compendium of the impending crisis of the South)
2. NIC (Helper, H. R. Compendium of the impending crisis of the South)
3. *C p.v. 1675, no. 1