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Collection Reference Number GLC05959.02.06
From Archive Folder The Countryman 
Title The Countryman. [Vol. 3, no. 8 (November 17, 1862)]
Date 17 November 1862
Author Turner, Joseph Addison (1826-1868)  
Document Type Newspapers and Magazines
Content Description Article regarding the law against educating Negroes.
Subjects Civil War  Military History  Confederate States of America  Literature and Language Arts  Poetry  Humor and Satire  African American History  Slavery  Law  Education  
People Turner, Joseph Addison (1826-1868)  
Place written Turnwold, Georgia
Theme The American Civil War; Slavery & Abolition; Education
Sub-collection American Civil War Newspapers and Magazines
Additional Information Joseph Addison Turner was a writer, editor, publisher, lawyer, and planter. He is best known for publishing The Countryman, a weekly newspaper produced from his Putnam County plantation during the Civil War (1861-65). Despite previous publishing failures, Turner's Countryman generated a wide southern readership during its four-year existence.
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945