The Cotton Kingdom, volume 2 (of 2)

_Nacogdoches._—In this town of 500 inhabitants, we found there was no flour. At San Augustine we had inquired in vain at all the stores for refined sugar. Not satisfied with som...

_Vicksburg, March 18th._—I arrived at this place last night, about sunset, and was told that there was no hotel in the town except on the wharf-boat, the only house used for tha...

_Central Mississippi, May 31st._—Yesterday was a raw, cold day, wind north-east, like a dry north-east storm at home. Fortunately I came to the pleasantest house and household I...

_Feliciana._[12]—A deep notch of sadness marks in my memory the morning of the May day on which I rode out of the chattering little town of Bayou Sara, and I recollect little of...

In a hilly part of Alabama, fifty miles north of the principal cotton-growing districts of that State, I happened to have a tradesman of the vicinity for a travelling companion,...

In the year 1846 the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States addressed a circular of inquiries to persons engaged in various businesses throughout the country, to obtain...

Mr. Russell,[40] although he clearly sees the calamity of the South, fully accepts the cotton planter’s opinion, that, after all, the system of slavery is a necessary evil atten...

Since the growth of the cotton demand has doubled the value of slave labour, and with it the pecuniary inducement to prevent negroes from taking care of themselves, hypotheses a...

“Before the advent of modern science, any idea of systematic laws of human improvement would have been deemed alike impossible and absurd; but the constant observation of facts,...