Life and labor in the old South / by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips.
| Author/creator | Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Boston : Little, Brown, and company, 1929. |
| Description | xix, 375 pages : frontispiece, illustrations, maps (1 folded), diagram ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | The land of Dixie -- The old dominion -- The younger colonies -- Redskins and Latins -- From the backwoods to the bluegrass -- The cotton belt -- Staple economy -- Traffic -- The peculiar institution -- The costs of labor -- Life in Thraldom -- Some Virginia masters -- Southeastern plantations -- Planters of the southwest -- Overseers -- Homesteads -- The plain people -- The gentry. |
| Local note | Joyner Wright Coll. copy 30372015863191 contains bookplate of William Alexander Percy and is autographed by Percy on the front flyleaf. Laid in is cover of Avon Players program advertising Othello and Hamlet. Stuart Wright Book Collection #24.50. See also related manuscript material in the Stuart Wright Collection, #1169, William Alexander Percy Papers, in Joyner Library Special Collections. |
| Local note | Joyner Wright Coll. copy 30372017438836 has Peter Taylor name label inside front cover. Stuart Wright Peter Taylor Book Collection #190. See also related manuscript material in the Stuart Wright Collection, #1169, in Joyner Library Special Collections. |
| General note | Awarded the prize of $2500 offered in 1928 by Little, Brown, and company for the best unpublished work on American history. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographies. |
| Acquisitions source | Joyner Wright Coll. copy 30372015863191 purchased from Stuart Wright, 2010. |
| Acquisitions source | Joyner Wright Coll. copy 30372017438836 gift of Stuart Wright, 2014 |
| LCCN | 29011204 |