Main entry:

Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903, author.

Title & Author:

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 / Frederick Law Olmsted, edited, with an introduction, by Arthur M. Schlesinger.

Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1953.

Description:

lxiii, 626, xvi pages : facsimile ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 623-626) and index.
The present crisis -- Washington -- Virginia -- The Economy of Virginia -- The Carolinas -- The rice district -- Alabama -- The lower Mississippi -- Cotton-planters. Red river -- South-western Louisiana and Eastern Texas -- A trip to Northern Mississippi -- The interior Cotton districts. Central Mississippi, Alabama, etc. -- The exceptional large planters -- Slavery in its property aspect. Moral and religious instruction of the slaves -- Slavery as a poor-law system -- Cotton supply and White labour in the cotton climate -- The condition and character of the privileged classes of the South -- The danger of South -- The condition of Virginia -- The slave trade in Virginia -- Cost of labour in the border states -- Statistics of the Georgia seaboard -- Olmsted on the Northern and Southern characters.

Summary:

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 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 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

Subject:

Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903.
Enslaved persons United States Biography.
Slavery Southern States.
Cotton growing Southern States.
Esclaves États-Unis Biographies.
Coton Culture États-Unis (Sud)
Cotton growing
Economic history
Enslaved persons
Travel
Landeskunde
Slaves United States Biography.
Southern States Description and travel.
Southern States Economic conditions.
États-Unis (Sud) Descriptions et voyages.
États-Unis (Sud) Conditions économiques.
Southern States
United States
USA Südstaaten

Form/genre:

Biography
Biographies

Added entries:

Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. (Arthur Meier), 1917-2007, editor, writer of introduction.

Traveller's observations on cotton and slavery in the American slave States

Holdings:

Location: Library main 36523
Call No.: W14490; ID:88-B7662
Status: Available