“This book, originally published in 1860 on the eve of the war of secession, is one of the most remarkable indictments of negro slavery to be found in the arsenal of abolitionist literature. It records a personal study of the conditions and habits of the people of the south ... [in order] to obtain and report the facts of ordinary life, not to supply arguments. Mr. Olmstead[Olmsted] was no abolitionist, ... he aimed at emancipation through the gradual cultivation and education of the capacities of the slaves, and the awakening of the masters to the economic waste of the existing system. His most interesting pages are not those devoted to the sordid realities of the cotton-fields and the varied conditions of life in the cabins of the ‘darkies;’ but those which contain a searching and pitiless analysis of the southern planter and the ‘mean’ whites.”—Spec.
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“Negro slavery has gone forever, but the negro problem is still acute, and those who would understand both the real nature of the ‘peculiar institution’ and the causes of the great war should study this very opportune reprint of Mr. Olmstead’s work.”
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Olney, Oliver, pseud. Novelty circus company. †$1.50. Jacobs.
7–29151.
How some school boys organized a company and gave a series of circus performances for the benefit of their town library provides material for a capital story.
Oman, Charles William Chadwick. Great revolt of 1381. *$2.90. Oxford.
6–42914.