A Work of Distinction 



A Journey in the 

 Seaboard Slave States 



1853 1854 



With Remarks on Their Economy 



By 

 Frederick Law Olmsted 



Author of " Walks and Talks with an American 

 Farmer in New England " 



With a Biographical Sketch by 



Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. 

 and an Introduction by W. P. Trent 



Second Edition. 2 Vols., with Portrait. Octavo 



Although published nearly fifty years ago, the 

 work today is not only valuable, but is intensely 

 interesting reading. It depicts the horrors of 

 slavery, and this is done in calm judicial manner. 

 It is in no degree sensational, but presents the 

 facts as seen or heard from credible witnesses, 

 and is invaluable to students of the causes of the 

 Civil War. 



"The reader who cares to understand the Civil 

 War should read the narrative by Frederick Law 

 Olmsted entitled 'A Journey in the Seaboard 

 Slave States.' Mr. Olmsted's volumes present 

 as interesting a picture of the South before its 

 great catastrophe as is given by Arthur Young of 

 France on the eve of its revolution." 



Morley's Life of Gladstone. 



G. P. Putnam's Sons 



New York London 



