Selections from the Cotton Kingdom by Frederick Law Olmsted

Although Frederick Law Olmsted is best remembered as a premier landscape architect, it is "The Cotton Kingdom" that historians regard as an equally significant part of his legacy. In this volume, John C. Inscoe makes Olmsted s classic work accessible to student audiences for the first time. The Introduction places Olmsted s personal history in the broader context of sectional conflict, and the selections are organized chronologically and geographically to reveal the extent of Olmsted s travels and his appreciation of the multiplicity of the antebellum Southern experience. A chronology, questions to consider, and bibliography enrich students understanding of the conflicts over slavery in the critical decade of the 1850s."