The Cotton Kingdom, volume 1 (of 2) : A traveller's observations on cotton and slavery in the American Slave States

by Frederick Law Olmsted

EN·~12 hours·12 chapters

Chapters

12 total

JOURNEYS AND EXPLORATIONS IN THE COTTON KINGDOM OF AMERICA.

2:50

COTTON AND SLAVERY.

0:01

CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY.—THE PRESENT CRISIS.

50:33

CHAPTER II. THE JOURNEY FROM WASHINGTON.

16:20

CHAPTER III. VIRGINIA.—GLIMPSES BY RAILROAD.

2:11:10

CHAPTER IV. THE ECONOMY OF VIRGINIA.

1:04:53

CHAPTER V. VIRGINIA AND ITS ECONOMY—CONTINUED.

2:29:18

CHAPTER VI. SOUTH CAROLINA AND GEORGIA, SURVEYED.

1:29:49

CHAPTER VII. THE SOUTH-WEST, ALABAMA AND MISSISSIPPI.

23:38

CHAPTER VIII. MISSISSIPPI AND LOUISIANA.

1:49:27

Description

Considerably abridged from the author's "A journey in the seaboard slave states," "A journey through Texas," and "A journey in the back country."

Details

Language

Duration

~12 hours (691K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Original publisher

New York: Mason Brothers, 1861.

Credits

Melissa McDaniel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive. Map reproduction courtesy of the Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library.)

Release date

2024-01-11

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Southern States -- Description and travel Southern States -- Economic conditions Cotton growing -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century Slavery -- Southern States F206

About the author

Frederick Law Olmsted

1870–1957

A leading voice in American landscape architecture and city planning, he helped carry his family’s design legacy into the 20th century while shaping ideas about parks, public land, and conservation. His work linked beautiful places with practical planning, from city systems to major national park efforts.

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