MR. OLMSTED’S WORKS ON THE SLAVE STATES.
Seaboard Slave States. A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States, with Remarks on their Economy. 1 vol., 12mo. pp. 724. Price, $1.25.
Texas Journey. A Journey through Texas: or, a Saddle Trip on the Southwestern Frontier; with a Statistical Appendix. 1 vol., 12mo. pp. 516. Price, $1.25.
Journey in the Back Country. A Journey in the Back Country; with a complete Index to the three volumes. 1 vol., 12mo. pp. 492. Price, $1.25.
The Cotton Kingdom. A Traveller’s observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American Slave States. Based upon three former volumes of Journeys and Investigations by the same author. 2 vols., 12mo. pp. 384 and 408. With a Colored Statistical Map of the Cotton Kingdom and its Dependencies, mainly derived from the United States Census. Price, $2.00.
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.
A MAP OF
THE COTTON KINGDOM
and its Dependencies
IN AMERICA.
| Dominant Cotton Districts. | ||
| (producing two Bales or more to each Slave) | Blue | |
| Subordinate Cotton Districts. | ||
| (producing less than two Bales) | Yellow | |
| Subsidiary Slave Districts. | ||
| (producing no Cotton or less than half a Bale) | Red | |
| Full horizontal lines indicate in which there is a strong Slaveproperty interest, there being more Slaves than Freemen here resident.Dotted horizontal lines shew a moderate Slave property interest. | ||
| In all the colored space not covered by horizontal lines, the resident freepopulation is more than two to one of the Slaves, but is yet hampered withslavery. | ||
| The data for this map are mainly derived from the United States Census of 1850. | ||
| Fred. Law Olmsted. | ||
| D. McLellen Lith. 26 Spruce St. N.Y. | New York—Mason Brothers. | |
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THE
COTTON KINGDOM:
A TRAVELLER’S OBSERVATIONS ON COTTON AND SLAVERY IN THE AMERICAN SLAVE STATES.
BASED UPON THREE FORMER VOLUMES OF JOURNEYS AND INVESTIGATIONS BY THE SAME AUTHOR.
BY
FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. 1.
NEW YORK:
PUBLISHED BY MASON BROTHERS,
5 and 7 MERCER STREET.
LONDON: SAMPSON LOW, SON & CO., 47 LUDGATE HILL.
1861.
Entered, according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1861, by
MASON BROTHERS,
In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern
District of New York.
PRINTED BY
C. A. Alvord,
15 Vandewater-st.
DEDICATION.
TO
JOHN STUART MILL, ESQ.
Sir,
I beg you to accept the dedication of this book as an indication of the honour in which your services in the cause of moral and political freedom are held in America, and as a grateful acknowledgment of the personal obligations to them on the part of
Your obedient servant,
THE AUTHOR.