A Journey in the Back Country in the Winter of 1853–4

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A Journey in the Back Country in the Winter of 1853–4 is a mid-19th-century travel narrative by landscape architect and writer Frederick Law Olmsted, documenting his observations of the American South and its social conditions shortly before the Civil War.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf 19th-century American literature
non-fiction book
travel narrative
author Frederick Law Olmsted NERFINISHED
contributor Frederick Law Olmsted NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States
depicts conditions of enslaved people
plantation life
rural Southern society
describes daily life in backcountry regions
economic structure of the slave South
race relations in the antebellum South
field American history
Southern studies
cultural geography
genre social commentary
travel writing
hasAuthorOccupation journalist
landscape architect
social critic
historicalContext period shortly before the American Civil War
language English
literaryPeriod mid-19th century
mainSubject American South
antebellum social conditions
slavery in the United States
perspective Northern observer
relatedWork A Journey Through Texas
A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States
setting Southern United States NERFINISHED
timeOfNarrative winter 1853–1854
usedAsSourceFor historical research on the antebellum South
studies of slavery in the United States

Referenced by (2)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States ("A Journey in the Back Country")
followedBy
Frederick Law Olmsted
wrote

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