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The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller’s Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American States. Based Upon Three Former Volumes of Journeys and Investigations by the Same Author.
The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller’s Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American States. Based Upon Three Former Volumes of Journeys and Investigations by the Same Author.
The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller’s Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American States. Based Upon Three Former Volumes of Journeys and Investigations by the Same Author.
The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller’s Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American States. Based Upon Three Former Volumes of Journeys and Investigations by the Same Author.
The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller’s Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American States. Based Upon Three Former Volumes of Journeys and Investigations by the Same Author.
The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller’s Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American States. Based Upon Three Former Volumes of Journeys and Investigations by the Same Author.
The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller’s Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American States. Based Upon Three Former Volumes of Journeys and Investigations by the Same Author.

The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller’s Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American States. Based Upon Three Former Volumes of Journeys and Investigations by the Same Author.

“...the most minute study of the antebellum South”

Exceptionally handsome copy of this classic work on observations of Southern life in antebellum America. While Olmsted is known today for his landscape architecture, he also travelled extensively in the South. Clark: “In the decade before the Civil War, Olmsted was disturbed by the propaganda of the more violent abolitionists, and gradually the desire grew within him to study the South at firsthand and to present a more objective picture of slavery and plantation life ... Olmsted’s three travel books were unique. They constituted the most detailed picture of the South, especially the rural South, which had been attempted up to that time.” ANB: Olmsted’s three books “comprise the most extensive and detailed description of the society of the antebellum South by a contemporary observer. Assisted by the antislavery advocate Daniel Reaves Goodloe, Olmsted also published in 1861 a two-volume compilation titled The Cotton Kingdom.”

Description: The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller’s Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American States. Based Upon Three Former Volumes of Journeys and Investigations by the Same Author.

New York: Published by Mason Brothers; London: Sampson Low, Son & Co., 1861. Hand-colored frontispiece folding map. First American Edition. Two volumes, octavo. Publisher’s diced cloth. Map slightly dogeared along one edge; trifle wear at extremities of bindings; very good.

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Graff 3094. See Clark III: 481–482. De Renne p636. Howes O-76 —“Condensation of his three separately published journeys, the most minute study of the antebellum South.”  Sabin 572401, i.e. 57240.

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