Selections from the Cotton Kingdom by Frederick Law Olmsted (The Bedford Series in History and Culture) - Softcover

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Olmsted, Frederick

 
9781457607134: Selections from the Cotton Kingdom by Frederick Law Olmsted (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)

Synopsis

Focused on the extent of Frederick Law Olmsteds travels and his appreciation of the multiplicity of the antebellum Southern experience, Selections from The Cotton Kingdom by Frederick Law Olmsted helps put the conflicts over slavery in the critical decade of the 1850s into perspective through observations.

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About the Author

John C. Inscoe (Ph.D, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) is Albert B. Saye Professor of History and University Professor at the University of Georgia, where he specializes in the history of the American South. Among his numerous publications are Mountain Masters: Slavery and the Sectional Crisis in Western North Carolina; Race, War, and Remembrance in the Appalachian South; Writing the South through the Self: Explorations in Southern Autobiography; and works edited or co-edited on Georgia race relations, Appalachians and race in the nineteenth century, southern Unionists during the Civil War, and Confederation nationalism and identity. He is editor of the New Georgia Encyclopedia and former editor of the Georgia Historical Quarterly.

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