In 1854, he informed Frederick L. olmsted, who was then traveling through that country, that he had confirmed thirty black persons near the station assigned to the Legree estate, where the conditions set forth in Uncle Tom's Cabin, he contended, did not obtain.
"The History of the Negro Church"
Carter Godwin Woodson
Missing nothing, olmsted said, in a description of a rail journey in North Carolina, "The principal other freight of the train was one hundred and twenty bales of Northern hay.
"The Rise of Cotton Mills in the South"
Broadus Mitchell
Mr. olmsted has given a vivid description of the desolate state of parts of Georgia and the Carolinas, once among the richest specimens of soil and cultivation in the world; and even the more recently colonized Alabama, as he shows, is rapidly following in the same downhill track.
"The Contest in America"
John Stuart Mill
