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.

Main entry:

Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903, author.

Title & Author:

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.

Subject:

Enslaved persons United States Biography.
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.
Slavery Texas.
Slavery Southern States.
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.
Schlesinger, Arthur Meier, 1888-1965

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

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

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