BLOOD IS THICKER THAN WATER: A FEW DAYS AMONG OUR SOUTHERN BRETHREN — By HENRY M. FIELD — 1st Edition/1st Printing, 1886 — Post-Civil War Reconstruction Publisher: George Munro, New York (1886)
First edition from 1886, in very well preserved condition. The boards and binding are solid and tight, save for rubbing on the top part of the spine. The pages are crisp and clean save for some spots of foxing on the first blank page and a spot of foxing on the title page. Henry Martyn Field (1822–1907) was an
American author and clergyman. BLOOD IS THICKER THAN WATER: A FEW DAYS AMONG OUR SOUTHERN BRETHREN consists of the author's letters that the author wrote to
his own newspaper in New York while he traveled throughout the South after the
Civil War. From the preface: Northern readers were gratified by the pictures of
that New South which was taking the place of the Old; of its new life, new
industries, and new ambitions; while a deeper impression was made in the South
itself. Please see below for more information on the author, Henry M. Field.
Biography
"From 1854 to 1898, he was editor and for many years he was
also sole proprietor of The Evangelist, a New York periodical devoted to the
interests of the Presbyterian church. He spent the last years of his life in
retirement at Stockbridge, where he died in 1907. ...He was the author of a series of books of travel, which
achieved unusual popularity. His two volumes descriptive of a trip round the
world in 1875–1876, entitled From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn
(1876) and From Egypt to Japan (1877), are almost classic in their way, and
have passed through more than twenty editions. Among his other publications are
The Irish Confederates and the Rebellion of 1798 (1850), The History of the
Atlantic Telegraph (1866), Blood is thicker than Water or A Few Days Amongst
our Southern Brethren !886)On the Desert - Recent Events in Eqypt. (1888), Old
Spain and New Spain (1888), Bright Skies and Dark Shadows (1890), and Life of
David Dudley Field (1898). Writing about race in Bright Skies and Dark
Shadows, Field claimed that segregation was part of human instinct which could
not be overcome through legislation..." -Wikipedia
