| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 105.5

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Canada and the United States

Charles C. Bolton and Scott P. Culclasure, editors. The Confessions of Edward Isham: A Poor White Life of the Old South. Foreword by J. William Harris. Athens: University of Georgia Press. 1998. Pp. xxii, 192. $18.00.

In this collection, editors Charles C. Bolton and Scott P. Culclasure have provided students of nineteenth-century America with a provocative if admittedly atypical glimpse into the often obscure world of the very poorest whites of the Old South. Centered around a rare first-person account of the life of a common laborer in the antebellum South (in the form of the brief autobiography that Edward Isham dictated to his attorney as he awaited trial for murder in 1860), this book also contains a valuable introduction and six thoughtful essays written by scholars specializing in the study of the Old South's plain folk. . . .

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