Transcriber’s Notes Inconsistent hyphenation, capitalization, and spelling in the original document have been preserved. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. Quotes in dialect were not corrected. The following are possible errors, but retained: but I havn’t got through with you yet. (page 10) venemous water-snakes, (page 24) Barbecued rabits. (page 57) Rasins (page 57) prehaps you’ll never see a stage again; (page 66) Page 76 and 77 (Numerous possible spelling errors). Your equaility is acknowledged (page 143) As to the moralty of this question (page 234) lagunes, and jungles (page 257) a caldron which stood over the fire (page 316) the moral physican (page 344) Download Volume 1 at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72676. JOURNEYS AND EXPLORATIONS IN THE COTTON KINGDOM OF AMERICA. 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. PRINTED BY C. A. ALVORD, 15 Vandewater-st. CONTENTS. PAGE CHAPTER I. SOUTH-WESTERN LOUISIANA AND EASTERN TEXAS 1 CHAPTER II. A TRIP INTO NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI 55 CHAPTER III. THE INTERIOR COTTON DISTRICTS—CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI, ALABAMA, ETC. 84 CHAPTER IV. THE EXCEPTIONAL LARGE PLANTERS 143 CHAPTER V. SLAVERY IN ITS PROPERTY ASPECT.—MORAL AND RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION OF THE SLAVES, ETC. 184 CHAPTER VI. SLAVERY AS A POOR LAW SYSTEM 236 CHAPTER VII. COTTON SUPPLY AND WHITE LABOUR IN THE COTTON CLIMATE 252 CHAPTER VIII. THE CONDITION AND CHARACTER OF THE PRIVILEGED CLASSES OF THE SOUTH 272 CHAPTER IX. THE DANGER OF THE SOUTH 338 APPENDIX (A.) THE CONDITION OF VIRGINIA.—STATISTICS 364 APPENDIX (B.) THE SLAVE TRADE IN VIRGINIA 372 APPENDIX (C.) COST OF LABOUR IN THE BORDER STATES 380 APPENDIX (D.)