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J. P. Harrison is a former American publishing house based in Atlanta, Georgia. [1]

Atlanta Capital of Georgia, United States

Atlanta is the capital of, and the most populous city in, the U.S. state of Georgia. With an estimated 2017 population of 486,290, it is also the 38th most-populous city in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, home to 5.8 million people and the ninth-largest metropolitan area in the nation. Atlanta is the seat of Fulton County, the most populous county in Georgia. A small portion of the city extends eastward into neighboring DeKalb County.

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The publishing house, masterminded by James P. Harrison, published the Southern Cultivator , the oldest Confederate agrarian journal in the Antebellum South. [2] It also published the books of one of its contributors, Southern author Bill Arp (1823-1906). [2] Additionally, it published the 1885 novel Psyche, written by Georgian author Odessa Strickland Payne. [3]

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Bill Arp writer, newspaper editor, politician

Charles Henry Smith was an American writer and politician from the state of Georgia. He used the nom de plume Bill Arp for nearly 40 years. He had a national reputation as a homespun humorist during his lifetime, and at least three communities are named for him.

Some of the books it published dealt with the state of Georgia. In 1877, it published Journal of the Constitutional convention of the people of Georgia held in the city of Atlanta in the months of July and August, 1877. [4] A year later, in 1878, it published Catalogue of Ores, Rocks and Woods, which focused on the geology and flora of Georgia. [5] Two years later, in 1880, it published J. Norcross's Democracy Examined, which dealt with politics in Georgia. [6] Yet another book, written in 1884, was published by the Harrison: entitled The Commonwealth of Georgia: The County, the People, the Productions, it was written by J. T. Henderson, who served as the Georgia Commissioner of Agriculture. [7] The same year, in published Charles Colcock Jones's The life and services of ex-Governor Charles Jones Jenkins and Catalogue of the Young Men's Library of Atlanta. [8] [9] Additionally, in 1892, it published Charles Edgeworth Jones's Political and Judicial Divisions of the Commonwealth of Georgia. [10]

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Some of its books dealt with race. For example, in 1877, it published The Negro Problem: An Essay on the Industrial, Political and Moral Aspects of the Negro Race in Southern States, written by J. R. Ralls. [11] Three years later, in 1880, it published The Education of the Negro, written by the Southern educator Gustavus Orr. [12] Nine years later, in 1889, it published Whites and black or, The question settled, written by the African-American diplomat C.H.J. Taylor. [13] Two years later, in 1891, it published Francis Fontaine's Amanda, the Octoroon . [14]

Gustavus John Orr was an early proponent of the public education system of Georgia. His work promoting a state system of education eventually became the framework for the Georgia School Law of 1870. This led to his being appointed Georgia's second State Commissioner of Education in 1872, a position he held until he died in 1887. In this position he helped the public school system work out of a $300,000 debt incurred by his predecessor, encouraged Georgia school enrollment to grow from 49,000 in 1871 to more than 340,000 in 1887, developed a licensure system for Georgia's teachers, and founded of three Normal Schools for the development of teachers.

Other books dealt with Christianity, especially Presbyterian or Calvinist themes. For example, in 1878, it published The Discipline of Dancing: A Review of the Block Case, and of the Sermons of Rev. J.T. Leftwich, D.D., written by J. W. Kerr. [15]

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References

  1. ↑ Internet archives
  2. 1 2 David B. Parker, Alias Bill Arp: Charles Henry Smith and the South's Goodly Heritage, Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 2009, pp. 94-95
  3. ↑ Open Library: Psyche
  4. ↑ Open Library: Journal of the Constitutional convention of the people of Georgia
  5. ↑ Open Library: Catalogue of Ores, Rocks and Woods
  6. ↑ Open Library: Democracy Examined
  7. ↑ Open Library: The Commonwealth of Georgia
  8. ↑ Open Library: The life and services of ex-Governor Charles Jones Jenkins
  9. ↑ Open Library: Catalogue of the Young Men's Library of Atlanta
  10. ↑ Open Library: Political and Judicial Divisions of the Commonwealth of Georgia
  11. ↑ Open Library: The Negro Problem
  12. ↑ Open Library: The Education of the Negro
  13. ↑ Open Library: Whites and blacks
  14. ↑ Open Library: Amanda, the Octoroon
  15. ↑ Open Library: The Discipline of Dancing
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