Rhett, Robert Barnwell (1800-1876) The Address of the People of South Carolina, assembled in convention, to the people of the slave states of the United States.
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00719 Author/Creator: Rhett, Robert Barnwell (1800-1876) Place Written: Charleston, South Carolina Type: Pamphlet Date: 1860 Pagination: 16 p. ; 22 x 14 cm. Order a Copy
Concerns South Carolina seceding from the Union and encouraging other slaveholding states to join in forming a confederacy. Printed by order of the convention by Evans & Cogswell, Charleston, South Carolina. No wrappers.
Rhett was a South Carolina lawyer, state legislator, state attorney general, U.S. representative, and U.S. senator. He was a member of the South Carolina secession convention in 1860.
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