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Cotton cultivation in antebellum America... The Grinnell Arctic Exploration...

Item # 721484 HARPER'S MONTHLY, New York, March, 1854 Beginning on the ftpg. is a 14 pg. article about the "Grinnell Expedition", which has 29 small illustrations of various scenes of the region: the "Interior of a native hut", the "Inspectors' house at Lievely", "Devil's Thumb", "Melville Bay", and more. Another article, "Cotton and Its Cultivation" (by T.B.Thorpe), includes significant details along with several illustrations related to picking cotton, the cotton-gin, slave labor, etc., and is often cited within other publications for its accurate depiction of the antebellum cotton economy a (slave) labor.
Measures 9 1/2 by 6 inches, disbound without wrappers, 140 pgs., some dirtiness to a handful of inside pages, but in overall good condition.