Frederick Law Olmsted was a journalist and landscape architect who is best known for designing Central Park in New York City. In the years before the Civil War, he also traveled extensively throughout the southern United States, and his observations on the region's culture, economy, and social structure were published in a series of popular books. Journeys and Explorations in the Cotton Kingdom is a comprehensive collection of Olmsted's travel writing from this period. His detailed accounts of the lives of slaves and slaveholders in the antebellum south are particularly compelling and informative. This edition of the book includes a new introduction by a leading Olmsted scholar. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.