He protests that he has been influenced by no par tisan bias none, at least, in the smallest degree un friendly to fair investigation, and honest reporting. It "was his disposition, also, to search for the causes and extenuating circumstances, past and present, of those phenomena which are com monly reported to the prejudice of the slaveholding community and especially of those features which are manifestly most to be regretted in the actual condition of the older Slave States. Journey, a determination to see things for himself, as far as possible, and to see tliem carefully and fairly, but cheerfully and kindly.
He is sorry for it, but it cannot now be helped so at the outset, let the reader understand that he is invited to travel in company "with an honest growler.īut growling is sometimes a duty and the traveler might well be suspected of being a " dead head," or a sneak, who did not find frequent occasion for its performance, among the notoriously careless, make shift, impersistent people of the South.įor the rest, the author had, at the outset of his
He is aware that it has one fault-it is too fault finding. THK chief design of the author in writing this book has been, to describe what was most interesting, amusing, and instructive to himself, during the first three of fourteen months' traveling in our Slave States using the later experience to correct the erroneous impressions of the earlier. may form the subject of a subfequent volume. The author's observations on Cotton Plantations, and in the fron tier and hill-country of the South. In tfe light of the experience then gathered, the letters have been revifed, and, with much additional matter, are now prcfented to the public. IN the year 1853, the author of this work made a journey through the Seaboard Slave States, and gave an account of his observations in the " New York Daily Times," under the signature of " Yeoman." Thofe letters excited some attention, and their publication in a book was "-inounced but, before preparing them for the prels, the author had occafion to make a second and longer viiit to the South. In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the S District of Now York. 1856.Įntered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856, by FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED, Records containing the words bread and butter or bread and fruitĪUTHOK OF " WALlfs ArfD TAtKS OF AN AMERICAN FAR Records containing the phrase “African American” and art Records with the word Brunswick but not the word stew Records with the word low that also contain girl and/or scouts Truncation and wildcards are not supported This Search You can use parentheses in your complex expressions Use "OR", "AND", and "NOT" (must be capitalized) to create complex boolean logic Use "-" before a word or phrase to exclude Use "+" before a term to make it required (Otherwise results matching only some of your terms may be included) Use quotation marks to search as a phrase Select "Full text" to search only the scanned or transcribed text for items. Select "Records" to search only metadata for items.
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