Frederick Law Olmsted
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A Journey through Texas: Or a Saddle-Trip on the Southwestern Frontier
50 editions
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1857
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The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations On Cotton And Slavery In The American Slave States, 1853-1861
80 editions
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1861
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A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States
48 editions
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2007
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Civilizing American Cities: Writings on City Landscapes
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2 editions
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1971
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The Slave States, Before The Civil War
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2 editions
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1959
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A Journey in the Back Country (1860)
58 editions
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published
1970
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The Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove of Big Trees: A Preliminary Report, 1865
3 editions
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1995
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Writings on Landscape, Culture, and Society
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3 editions
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2015
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Frederick Law Olmsted: Essential Texts
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2010
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Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in England
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1859
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“The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.”
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“and slaves thus get a fictitious value like stocks “in a corner.”
― The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations On Cotton And Slavery In The American Slave States, 1853-1861
― The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations On Cotton And Slavery In The American Slave States, 1853-1861
“if he had been born a free man, would be no better employed than he is here; but, in that case, where is the advantage? Certainly not in the economy of the arrangement. And if he were self-dependent, if, especially, he had to provide for the present and future of those he loved, and was able to do so, would he not necessarily live a happier, stronger, better, and more respectable man?”
― The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations On Cotton And Slavery In The American Slave States, 1853-1861
― The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations On Cotton And Slavery In The American Slave States, 1853-1861
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