(031645) Pearse, James. A Narrative Of The Life Of James Pearse. Chicago, IL: Quadrangle Books, 1962. Reprint. Hardcover. 8vo. 144 pages. Very Good in Very Good DJ. Bookplate on front pastedown. DJ lightly dust soiled and has a small chip at the bottom edge of front panel . Subtitle: In Two Parts...Containing a General Account of His Early Life; and More Particularly of Five Years Residence in the State of Mississippi and Louisiana...[and] An Account of His Unfortunate Imprisonment at Plattsburg, in the State of New York. Reprint of a book originally published in 1825. A denunciation of life in the South. Pearse was born in 1786 in Massachusetts, the son of a poor farmer. After farming, he turned to the manufacture of potash and later in 1818 decided to accept his brother's invitation to manage a new plantation near woodville, in the southwest corner of Mississippi. He believed slavery was an abomination and observed and reported upon the life of all classes, and his comments on the lower strata of white settlers is unique and revealing (Frontier Life, Pioneer Life, Mississippi)