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The Cotton Kingdom - A Traveller's Observations On Cotton And Slavery In The American Slave States, 1853-1861 (Paperback, 1st Da Capo Press ed) Loot Price: R1,077
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The Cotton Kingdom - A Traveller's Observations On Cotton And Slavery In The American Slave States, 1853-1861 (Paperback,...

The Cotton Kingdom - A Traveller's Observations On Cotton And Slavery In The American Slave States, 1853-1861 (Paperback, 1st Da Capo Press ed)

Frederick Olmsted

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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 the New 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, black and white,were largely collected in The Cotton Kingdom . Published in 1861, just as the Southern states were storming out of the Union, it has been hailed ever since as singularly fair and authentic, an unparalleled account of America's "peculiar institution."

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Imprint: Da Capo Press Inc
Country of origin: United States
Release date: August 1996
First published: September 1996
Authors: Frederick Olmsted
Dimensions: 227 x 154 x 41mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 716
Edition: 1st Da Capo Press ed
ISBN-13: 978-0-306-80723-7
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Slavery & emancipation
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LSN: 0-306-80723-8
Barcode: 9780306807237

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