A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States
With Remarks on their Economy
2 Volume Paperback Set
Part of Cambridge Library Collection - North American History
Frederick Law Olmsted
Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr
William P. Trent
format: Multiple copy pack
Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903) was a journalist and landscape designer who is regarded as the founder of American landscape architecture: his most famous achievement was Central Park in New York, of which he became the superintendent in 1857, but he also worked on the design of parks in many other burgeoning American cities, and was called by Charles Eliot Norton 'the greatest artist that America has yet produced'. His A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States was originally published in 1856, and arose from journeys in the south which Olmsted, a passionate abolitionist, had undertaken in 1853–4. This edition was published in two volumes in 1904, with the addition of a biographical sketch by his son and an introduction by William P. Trent. It abounds in fascinating and witty descriptions of Olmsted's encounters and experiences in a society which was on the verge of overwhelming change.
Volume I: Preface
1. Washington
2. Virginia
3. The economy of Virginia
4. The political experience of Virginia
5. North Carolina
Volume II:
1. South Carolina and Georgia
2. Rice and its culture
3. Experimental political economy of South Carolina and Georgia
4. Alabama
5. Experience of Alabama
6. Louisiana.
The Slave States of America
Society in America
Domestic Manners of the Americans
Notions of the Americans
Picked Up by a Travelling Bachelor
A Diary in America
With Remarks on its Institutions
A Journal of a Three Months' Tour in the United States
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