BASED UPON THREE FORMER VOLUMES OF JOURNEYS AND INVESTIGATIONS BY THE SAME AUTHOR.

BY

FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED.

IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. II.

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.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.
PAGE
SOUTH-WESTERN LOUISIANA AND EASTERN TEXAS[1]
CHAPTER II.
A TRIP INTO NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI[55]
CHAPTER III.
THE INTERIOR COTTON DISTRICTS—CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI, ALABAMA,
ETC.		[84]
CHAPTER IV.
THE EXCEPTIONAL LARGE PLANTERS[143]
CHAPTER V.
SLAVERY IN ITS PROPERTY ASPECT.—MORAL AND RELIGIOUS
INSTRUCTION OF THE SLAVES, ETC.		[184]
CHAPTER VI.
SLAVERY AS A POOR LAW SYSTEM[236]
CHAPTER VII.
COTTON SUPPLY AND WHITE LABOUR IN THE COTTON CLIMATE[252]
CHAPTER VIII.
THE CONDITION AND CHARACTER OF THE PRIVILEGED CLASSES
OF THE SOUTH		[272]
CHAPTER IX.
THE DANGER OF THE SOUTH[338]
APPENDIX (A.)
THE CONDITION OF VIRGINIA.—STATISTICS[364]
APPENDIX (B.)
THE SLAVE TRADE IN VIRGINIA[372]
APPENDIX (C.)
COST OF LABOUR IN THE BORDER STATES[380]
APPENDIX (D.)
STATISTICS OF THE GEORGIA SEABOARD[385]
INDEX TO THE WORK[393]