American scenes, and Christian slavery : a recent tour of four thousand miles in the United States
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American scenes, and Christian slavery : a recent tour of four thousand miles in the United States
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Cambridge University Press, 2009
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"This digitally printed version 2009"--T.p. verso
Reprint. Originally published: London : John Snow, 1849
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First published in 1849, American Scenes and Christian Slavery is a description, in epistolary format, of American life, nature, culture, and its slave trade during the nineteenth century, as observed by a British abolitionist, Ebenezer Davies, during his travels through the United States. Davies had been the minister of Mission Chapel, New Amsterdam, and in this collection of letters, he offers valuable contemporary perspectives on the people and the manners of America as they appeared to him during a journey of over four thousand miles. A favourable reception of a few similar letters that were published in the Patriot magazine paved the way for the preparation of this book. The book's 37 chapters record the author's impressions of Ohio, the river Mississippi and the cities of New Orleans, Cincinnati, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, and Boston. Davies' travelogue is a witty account of an English traveller's experiences of nineteenth-century America.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Occasion of visit to the United States
- 2. American oysters
- 3. New Orleans
- 4. A sabbath in New Orleans
- 5. First religious service in America
- 6. 'Jack Jones'
- 7. The slave auction (continued)
- 8. St Louis exchange
- 9. Sale of women
- 10. Interview with a Baptist minister
- 11. Farewell to New Orleans
- 12. Voyage up the Mississippi (continued)
- 13. Voyage up the Mississippi (continued)
- 14. Voyage up the Mississippi (continued)
- 15. Voyage up the Ohio (continued)
- 16. Stay at Cincinnati (continued)
- 17. Stay at Cincinnati (continued)
- 18. Visit to Lane Seminary (continued)
- 19. A sabbath at Cincinnati
- 20. Stay at Cincinnati (continued)
- 21. Stay at Cincinnati (continued)
- 22. Cincinnati
- 23. Arrival at Pittsburg
- 24. Journey by railroad from Cumberland to Baltimore
- 25. A sabbath at Baltimore (continued)
- 26. Departure from Philadelphia
- 27. A Presbyterian church in New York
- 28. A visit to Mount Vernon
- 29. The Rev. Theodore Sedgwick Wright
- 30. Trip to New Haven
- 31. The spot on which Whitfield preached
- 32. A fast-day
- 33. The 'Retreat'
- 34. Boston (continued)
- 35. A peep at the House of Representatives in Albany
- 36. The May meetings
- 37. What the author thinks of the Americans.
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