New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1904. Later edition. One of the best objective reports on the region in the antebellum period: Olmstead was not at first an advocate of freeing the slaves, but upon the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation he became one of its most fervant supporters. His biograper..... Read More about A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States, in the years 1853-1854 with Remarks on their Economy