This Civil War-era travelogue includes the following chapters—
I. The Valley of the Lower Mississippi—A Cotton Man
II. The Property Aspect of Slavery
III. A Trip Into a Part of Northern Mississippi
IV. The Interior Cotton Districts
V. The Piedmont Cotton District—Northern Alabama
VI. The Highlanders
VII. Patriarchal Life in Virginia, and in General—James River Chat
VIII. Slavery Extension; Southern Commerce and Cotton Supply; Present Condition and Character of the Citizens of the South; the Causes and the Remedy
IX. Character and Manners—Formula for Justifying Slavery
X. The Danger of the South
