The New Stars
An edition of The New Stars (1949)
Life and Labor In Old Missouri
By Manie Kendley Morgan
Publish Date
1949
Publisher
The Antioch Press
Language
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Pages
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Description:
The story of Manie Kendley Morgan, her life as a child on a Missouri plantation, the experiences of her family and their Negro slaves during the border warfare and Jayhawker struggles, the War Between the States, and the building of a new way of life after Emancipation. As arranged by Jennie A. Morgan and edited, with an Interpretive Introduction, by Louis Filler. A charming human story and an authentic slice of American history, with new material, and holographic reproductions, on Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman.
Times: Civil War period