DANIEL HOARD BALDWIN LETTERS, #4128, 1859-1869
Analytical letters from D. H. Baldwin, merchant of Savannah, Georgia, and New York City, to
William Baldwin of Massachusetts. A group of letters written from 1860 to 1861 discuss the secession crisis; the role of slavery and the
Republican party in precipitating the crisis; the South's determination to achieve
independence; and Baldwin's own opinions on the South. Later letters (1867-1869) analyze Reconstruction and race relations, and include a
proposal by Baldwin to import laborers from Africa for Southern planters.
