1859 SOUTHERN PLANTATION SLAVERY. Rare Georgia Pro-Slavery Periodical for Re-Opening Slave Trade.

Very rare entire year, with no other examples on the market, of this important year of the Southern Cultivator, i.e. Plantation Owner, from the immediate run-up to the Civil War. Its pages are full of pro-slavery concerns, including a series of articles arguing for the re-opening of the Slave Trade, which had been formally abolished in 1808. 

Also, fascinating content regarding southern politics, southern farming, extensive content on attempts to cultivate a southern wine market, items on plantation wife, on the emergence of the new Southern Belle, etc., 

Lee, D. and D. Redmond and C. W. Howard [Eds.]. The Southern Cultivator, A Monthly Journal, Devoted to the Interests of Southern Agriculture, and Designed to Improve both the Soil and the Mind; to Elevate the Character of the Tillers of the Soil, and to Introduce a More Enlightened System of Agriculture. Illustrated with Numerous Elegant Engravings. Augusta, Georgia. William S. Jones. 1859. 376pp.

Contents include: The Study of Manures; Farmers - Dignify Your Profession; The Re-Opening of the Slave Trade; Pedigrees of Devon Cattle; On the Transfer of Bees from One Hive to Another; The Western Fever - Moving [Westward Expansion]; Mississippi Wines; How to Prevent Sows from Killing their Young; Moles and Chinese Sugar Cane; The Camel - His Nature Habits and Uses [for import to the southern states]; Gumbo Soup; Agriculture in South Carolina; The Earliest and Best Mode of Raising Tobacco; Emigration West - Georgians Wanted!; Poem - The Farmer Man - A Georgi-ac; The Origin of the Cotton Gin; Sensible Negro!; Grape Culture in the South; Mustang Wine in Texas; A Lecture on Hereditary Blood in Man and other Mammalia; in the University of Georgia by Daniel Lee; The African Slave Trade by Garnett Andrews of Georgia [Extensive by an influential pro-slavery, anti-secession Georgia Politician]; The Guano Question; An Improved Breed of Men [Early Eugenics, etc.]; Cultivation of the Pea-Nut [Peanut]; Review of "An Argument Against the Policy of Re-Opening the Slave Trade" by Robert G. Harper of Georgia [Extensive]; Re-Opening the Slave Trade [Extensive]; Mortality of Different Races [Colored Americans were twice as high, owing, according to the chart, "undoubtedly to the race being in the northern climate."]; Song of the Cotton Plant by John Anrobus [Poem]; Champagne Wine - Some Curious Facts about It; Plantation Architecture [with illustrations]; Disunion and Abolition! As Seen through a Pair of Very Keen Yankee Spectacles [Extensive]; The Old Peach Tree [Poem]; Land and Labor ["Too much for a darkey?" etc.]; The Tom-Boy [early usage of this term explained]; On the Intermarriage of Cousins; Re-Opening the Slave Trade [again, extensive]; Review of "An Historical Sketch of Slavery from the Earliest Periods" by Thomas R. R. Cobb; A Georgia Negress in Africa; How to Cure Stammering; Plantation Management - On the Treatment of Negroes by a Mississippi Planter; Is the Earth Wearing Out? Duties of a Lady in the Household; The Properly Qualified House Wife; Fashionable Women; The High Price of Horses; The Cherokee Baptist College at Cassville; Steam Machinery for the Farm; Making the Homestead Beautiful; Lord Brougham and Slavery in Georgia; etc. etc. 

Good. Heavily worn half calf, split at hinges, etc. but solid, clean, and very much ready for use. Some toning as shown. Illustrated throughout.