A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States

A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States PDF

Author: Frederick Law Olmsted

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-25

Total Pages: 750

ISBN-13: 9780331897234

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Excerpt from A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States: With Remarks on Their Economy The chief design of the author in writing this book has been, to describe what was most interesting, amusing, and instructive to himself, during the first three of fourteen months' traveling in our Slave States; using the later experience to correct the erroneous impressions of the earlier. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States in the Years 1853-1854, with Remarks on Their Economy

A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States in the Years 1853-1854, with Remarks on Their Economy PDF

Author: Frederick Law Olmsted

Publisher: Hardpress Publishing

Published: 2012-08-01

Total Pages: 474

ISBN-13: 9781290458634

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Cotton Kingdom

Cotton Kingdom PDF

Author: Frederick Law Olmsted

Publisher: Applewood Books

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 1429015918

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Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) is best known for designing parks in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Chicago, Boston, and the grounds of the Capitol in Washington. But before he embarked upon his career as the nation's foremost landscape architect, he was a correspondent for theNew 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 slavery 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."