COTTON LANDS THE BEST PERMANENT INVESTMENT FOR CAPITAL, AND ALABAMA ONE OF THE BEST, If Not the Very Best of the Cotton States to Invest Money In and to Live In
Montgomery, Ala. "Daily Ledger" Book and Job Office, 1865. First edition. 8vo. 15 pp. With the Civil War over, out-of-staters moved in looking for quick money opportunities; Johnson was surely one of the first in Alabama. “Many plantations can now be bought with greenbacks for one half the sum they could have been sold at in gold before the war … but you are ready to ask me whether in my opinion the freedmen will work. I answer that he must work to survive.” Dated November 30, 1865, this is one of the earliest post-Civil War promotionals for Alabama. Not in Owen. Ellison 1417 (Alabama Archives & History). OCLC locates six copies (Michigan, Texas-Austin, New York Historical Society, Boston Athenaeum, Library of Congress, R. B. Hayes Presidential Center). Original printed buff wrappers (some corners turned up). Fine copy and, if only for its condition, a remarkable survival of an important Alabama promotional. Item #65900
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