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.
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Link Singerman ID: supp1632
Year: 1861
Entry: Olmsted, Frederick Law. 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. New York: Mason Brothers; London: Sampson Low, Son & Co., 1861. 2 vols.
Author/Editor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
Location: New York, NY
Holdings: In most academic libraries
Title: 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.
Printer/Publisher: Mason Brothers
Language: English
Notes: Complains of a "swarm of Jews" settling in every Southern town where they engage in unscrupulous trading practices (vol. 1, pp. 252-53).