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The Cotton Kingdom, volume 1 (of 2)

Chapter 2: MR. OLMSTED’S WORKS ON THE SLAVE STATES.
By Frederick Law Olmsted
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A travel account records journeys across the Southern cotton-producing states, blending vivid on-site descriptions with statistical, economic, and political analysis of plantation agriculture and slavery. The author surveys landscapes, towns, and transportation, examines planter and slaveholder practices, and documents conditions of enslaved people, labor organization, and market networks centered on cotton. Chapters alternate travel narrative with broader reflections on the social and legal institutions that support slavery, its effects on Southern economy and public morals, and the growing sectional crisis between North and South. Maps and census-derived data are used to support observations.

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This work was, by request, prepared by its author with especial reference to English readers, and is simultaneously published in England and in this country.