Frederick Law Olmsted - A journey in the Seaboard States (1856)

1. Introduction
2. A Tabacco Plantation in Virginia
3. Free-labor Farm in Virginia
4. Recreation and Luxury among the Slaves
5. Ingenuity of the Negro
6. Qualities as a Laborer
7. Improvement of the Negro in Slavery
8. How they are fed
9. Fraternity
10. Religious Condition

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    • Excerpts from Henry Carey The Harmony of Interests Agricultural, Manufacturing & Commercial 1851
    • Excerpts from Henrey Carey The Slave Trade Domestic and Foreign 1853
    • Excerpt from Frederick Law Olmsted A journey in the Seaboard Slave States 1856
    • The Constitution of the Confederate States of America 1861
    • McClellan Letter to Lincoln on His Evacuation from the Penninsula Campaign 1862
    • The Wade-Davis Manifesto August 5 1864
    • Thaddeus Stevens speech of December 18 1865
    • Address of a convention of Negroes held in Alexandria Virginia August 1865
    • Alexander Stephens on Reconstruction April 11 1866
    • Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction June 20 1866
    • Charles Sumner Opinion on the trial of Andrew Johnson 1868
    • Exerpt from James W. Grimes Opinion on the Trial of Andrew Johnson 1868
    • Navajo Treaty of 1868
    • Resolutions of a meeting of the Illinois State Farmers' Association April 1873
    • The Slaughter-House cases 1873