The cotton kingdom: A traveller's observations on cotton and slavery in the American slave states : based upon three former volumes of journeys and ... same author (Modern Library college editions)
Description
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, blac...
ISBN(s)
0394330870, 9780394330877
