The cottonkingdom
a traveller's observations on cotton and slavery in the American slave states : based upon three former volumes of journeys and investigations by the same author
by Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr.
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Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) is best known for designing New York City's Central Park, and parks in Brooklyn, Chicago, Boston, and Washington. But before he embarked upon his career as the nation's foremost landscape architect, he was a correspondent for The New York Times, and it was under its auspices that he journeyed through the slave states in the 1850s.
His day-by-day observations - including intimate accounts of the daily lives of masters and slaves, the operation of the plantation system, and the pernicious effects of slaves on all classes of society, black and white - were largely collected in the Cotton Kingdom. Published in 1861, just as the Southern states were storming out of the Union, it has been hailed ever since as singularly fair and authentic, an unparalleled account of America's "peculiar institution."
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Description and travel, Economic conditions, Slavery, Cotton growing, History, Slaves, Biography, Cotton growing and manufacture, Southern States, Travel, Landeskunde, Südstaaten, Economic history, Descriptions et voyages, Conditions économiques, Olmsted, frederick law, 1822-1903, Southern states, description and travel, Southern states, economic conditions, Slavery, united states, Cotton tradePlaces
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The cotton kingdom: a traveller's observations on cotton and slavery in the American slave states : based upon three former volumes of journeys and investigations by the same author
1996, Da Capo Press
in English
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0306807238 9780306807237
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The cottonkingdom: a traveller's observations on cotton and slavery in the American slave states : based upon three former volumes of journeys and investigations by the same author
1984, Modern Library
in English
0394330870 9780394330877
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Includes index.
Bibliography, p. (xxxviii)-xxxix.
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