A Journey in the Back Country

This Civil War-era travelogue includes the following chapters— 


I. The Valley of the Lower Mississippi—A Cotton Man 

II. The Property Aspect of Slavery 

III. A Trip Into a Part of Northern Mississippi 

IV. The Interior Cotton Districts 

V. The Piedmont Cotton District—Northern Alabama 

VI. The Highlanders 

VII. Patriarchal Life in Virginia, and in General—James River Chat 

VIII. Slavery Extension; Southern Commerce and Cotton Supply; Present Condition and Character of the Citizens of the South; the Causes and the Remedy 

IX. Character and Manners—Formula for Justifying Slavery 

X. The Danger of the South