Journey in the Seaboard Slave States – Oldmstead – 1857 | First Edition, Slavery

Journey in the Seaboard Slave States – Oldmstead – 1857 | First Edition, Slavery

“A Journey Through Texas” is a pre-Civil War account of slavery and immigration in the American South by Frederick Law Olmsted. Olmsted was most known for his landscape architecture and design of Central Park; however, he was also commissioned by the ‘The New York Times’ to write a thorough account of the southern states – which included a description of Texas and the Texan frontier. This book offers notes on cattle drives, cotton labor and plantations, slaveholders and regulations, tobacco harvests, Mexican settlers, and the Pacific Railroad!

Item number: #27797

Price: $750

OLMSTED, Frederick Law

A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States, with Remarks on their Economy.

New York: Dix and Edwards; London: Sampson, Low, Son and Co., 1857. First edition.

Details:

• Collation: Complete
  • [2], xxxiv, 516
  • Includes 1 folding map
• References: Howes O 79; Sabin 57245; Basic Texas Books, 157e; Rader 2459
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover; secure
  • Brown cloth
• Size: ~7.5in X 5.5in (19cm x 13.5cm)

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