J. P. Harrison is a former American publishing house based in Atlanta, Georgia.Internet archives
Overview The publishing house, masterminded by James P. Harrison, published the Southern Cultivator, the oldest Confederate agrarian journal in the Antebellum South.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 It also published the books of one of its contributors, Southern author Bill Arp (1823-1906). Additionally, it published the 1885 novel Psyche, written by Georgian author Odessa Strickland Payne.Open Library: Psyche
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.Open Library: Journal of the Constitutional convention of the people of Georgia A year later, in 1878, it published Catalogue of Ores, Rocks and Woods, which focused on the geology and flora of Georgia.Open Library: Catalogue of Ores, Rocks and Woods Two years later, in 1880, it published J. Norcross's Democracy Examined, which dealt with politics in Georgia.Open Library: Democracy Examined 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.Open Library: The Commonwealth of Georgia 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.Open Library: The life and services of ex-Governor Charles Jones JenkinsOpen Library: Catalogue of the Young Men's Library of Atlanta Additionally, in 1892, it published Charles Edgeworth Jones's Political and Judicial Divisions of the Commonwealth of Georgia.Open Library: Political and Judicial Divisions of the Commonwealth of Georgia
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.Open Library: The Negro Problem Three years later, in 1880, it published The Education of the Negro, written by the Southern educator Gustavus Orr.Open Library: The Education of the Negro Nine years later, in 1889, it published Whites and black or, The question settled, written by the African-American diplomat C.H.J. Taylor.Open Library: Whites and blacks Two years later, in 1891, it published Francis Fontaine's Amanda, the Octoroon.Open Library: Amanda, the Octoroon
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.Open Library: The Discipline of Dancing
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