Letters, 1845-1852.

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Letters, 1845-1852.

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Letters from Blackwell, a Methodist minister, to his brother Edmund B. Blackwell. Letters contain advice about moving from South Carolina to Mississippi or Alabama. Among topics are produce prices; crop conditions; commercial advantages; and land speculation. Blackwell wrote about sickness in his community, mentioning hemorrage of the lungs, bronchitis, bloody flux, congestive chills, typhoid, and cholera. Blackwell owned slaves, and commented on their health as well. Occasional religious exhortations are included, as well as comments on revivals, conferences, and conversions. In letter dated 1852 Dec. 29, the author described a hurricane in the Mississippi delta and referred to Judge Longstreet and the University of Mississippi.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Longstreet, Augustus Baldwin, 1790-1870

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Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, lawyer, author, and college president, was born 22 September 1790, in Augusta, Georgia, and died 9 July 1870, in Oxford, Mississippi. His sketches of late eighteenth century Georgia life, GEORGIA SCENES, appeared in Georgia newspapers (1833-1836), but later writings were more political or religious. He was ordained a Methodist minister (1838) and became president of four Southern colleges: Emory College (1839-1848), Centenary College in Jackson, La. (1849), the Unive...

University of Mississippi

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Blackwell, Edmund R.

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Blackwell, M. J.

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Methodist minister in Mississippi. From the description of Letters, 1845-1852. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 31421740 ...