“To work industriously and steadily”: Frederick Law Olmsted and the Southern Work Ethic Revisited

Frederick Law Olmsted is widely admired by historians of the nineteenthcentury United States and generally regarded as the single most important commentator upon slavery and the South. He toured the southern states in the early 1850s and published a series of reports in the New York Daily Times and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: David Brown
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: CBS Open Journals 2014-02-01
Series:American Studies in Scandinavia
Online Access:https://192.168.7.25:443/index.php/assc/article/view/5148