John C. Calhoun and Frederick Law Olmstead are perfect representatives of each group and show how divided the country was regarding the nature of slavery in the 19th century. In The “Positive Good” of Slavery, John C. Calhoun takes a politically driven approach in detailing the positive aspects of slavery while in A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States; With Observations on Their Economy, Frederick L Olmstead takes a more objective approach and questions both the positive and negative aspects of slavery. Frederick Law Olmstead was an American landscape architect and journalist from Hartford, Connecticut. He was sent on a five-year assignment by the New York Daily Times to research life in the Southern states and Texas from 1852 to 1857. During his travels, he made observations about the prevalence of slavery among the states. In A Journey to the Slave States of the Coast; With Observations on Their Economy, Frederick observes the hardships slaves endure while working on plantations. His travels took him to a rice plantation where a slave master told him, "I would rather stand fifty feet from the best rifleman in Kentucky and be shot by the hour, than spend a night on my plantation in