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The slave states before the Civil War Frederick Law Olmsted ; edited, with an introd. by Harvey Wish
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks USouth F 213 .O54 1959
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903.
- Series:
- Capricorn books
- Standardized Title:
- Journey in the seaboard slave States
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Southern States--Description and travel.
- Southern States.
- Southern States--Economic conditions.
- Slavery--Southern States.
- Slavery.
- Cotton growing--Southern States.
- Cotton growing.
- Physical Description:
- 255 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1959.
- Contents:
- Journey to the seaboard slave states
- Virginia
- North Carolina
- South Carolina and Georgia
- Louisiana
- Journey through Texas
- Route through Western Texas
- Along the Eastern Coast
- Journey in the back country
- The valley of the Lower Mississippi
- A Tennessee squire
- The cotton kingdom
- Cotton and slavery
- Slavery in its property aspect.
- Notes:
- Condensation of the author's A journey in the seaboard slave States, Journey through Texas, A journey in the back country, and The Cotton Kingdom; with reproductions of original title pages.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 36-37).
- Local Notes:
- Pennsylvania Abolition Society Complimentary Collection .
- Other Format:
- Online version: Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903. Journey in the seaboard slave States. Slave States, before the Civil War.
- OCLC:
- 710672
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