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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instanceOf 19th-century American literature
non-fiction book
travel narrative
author Frederick Law Olmsted
contributor Frederick Law Olmsted
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: 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 Southern United States
surface form: 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
timeOfNarrative winter 1853–1854
usedAsSourceFor historical research on the antebellum South
studies of slavery in the United States

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Frederick Law Olmsted wrote A Journey in the Back Country in the Winter of 1853–4
A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States followedBy A Journey in the Back Country in the Winter of 1853–4
this entity surface form: A Journey in the Back Country