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The Southern Literary Messenger: Literature of the Old South

Issues of a pro-slavery literary magazine showing how the hot-button topics of slavery and secession were presented in southern intellectual and literary culture in the early stages of the Civil War.

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The Southern Literary Messenger enjoyed an impressive thirty-year run and was in its time the South's most important literary periodical. Avowedly a southern publication, the Southern Literary Messenger was also the one literary periodical published that was widely circulated and respected among a northern readership.

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Archives Unbound

Product Type: Primary Sources

Content Types: Manuscripts, Monographs (books)

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