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.

BY

FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

NEW YORK:

PUBLISHED BY MASON BROTHERS,

5 and 7 MERCER STREET.

LONDON: SAMPSON LOW, SON & CO., 47 LUDGATE HILL.

1861.

Entered, according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1861, by

MASON BROTHERS,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.

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C. A. ALVORD, 15 Vandewater-st.

SLAVERY IN ITS PROPERTY ASPECT.-MORAL AND RELIGIOUS

INSTRUCTION OF THE SLAVES, ETC.

CHAPTER VI.

SLAVERY AS A POOR LAW SYSTEM

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CHAPTER VII.

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