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Travel Reports

American Scenes and Christian Slavery. A Recent Tour of Four Thousand Miles in the United States / Davies, Ebenezer (1808-1882)

Part of: American Notes. Travels in America, 1750-1920 / Library of Congress : General Collections
Related Names: Mccollum, Steve (comp.) et al.
Release: Washington, D. C., Sep 2003
Extent: 44 pages
Last Visit: Nov 2, 2003.
Technical Notes: Facsimile page images (GIF format) and full text (HTML format) of original. SGML version also available (requires special viewer). — Not covered by the Slave-Studies.net search engine.
Notes: Originally published London: J. Snow, 1849 (xii, 324 p. ; 20 cm). – Part of the American Memory collection.
Language: English

An Englishman's Travels in America. His Observations of Life and Manners in the Free and Slave States / Benwell, John

Part of: American Notes. Travels in America, 1750-1920 / Library of Congress : General Collections
Related Names: Mccollum, Steve (comp.) et al.
Release: Washington, D. C., Sep 2003
Extent: 13 pages
Last Visit: Nov 2, 2003.
Technical Notes: Facsimile page images (GIF format) and full text (HTML format) of original. SGML version also available (requires special viewer). — Not covered by the Slave-Studies.net search engine.
Notes: Originally published London: Ward and Lock [1857] (vii, 231 p. 16 cm). – Part of the American Memory collection.
Language: English

A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States. With Remarks on Their Economy / Olmsted, Frederick Law (1822-1903)

Part of: American Notes. Travels in America, 1750-1920 / Library of Congress : General Collections
Related Names: Mccollum, Steve (comp.) et al.
Release: Washington, D. C., Sep 2003
Extent: 22 pages
Last Visit: Nov 2, 2003.
Technical Notes: Facsimile page images (GIF format) and full text (HTML format) of original. SGML version also available (requires special viewer). — Not covered by the Slave-Studies.net search engine.
Notes: Originally published New York: Dix & Edwards; London: Sampson Low, Son & Co., 1856 (xv, 723 p. : ill. ; 19 cm). – Part of the American Memory collection.
Language: English

Lands of the Slave and the Free. Or, Cuba, the United States, and Canada. By Captain the Hon. Henry A. Murray, R.N. / Murray, Henry A[nthony] (1810-1865)

Part of: American Notes. Travels in America, 1750-1920 / Library of Congress : General Collections
Related Names: Mccollum, Steve (comp.) et al.
Release: Washington, D. C., Sep 2003
Extent: 46 pages
Last Visit: Nov 2, 2003.
Technical Notes: Facsimile page images (GIF format) and full text (HTML format) of original. SGML version also available (requires special viewer). — Not covered by the Slave-Studies.net search engine.
Notes: "Second and cheap edition." Originally published: London/New York: G. Routledge & co., 1857 (xxiii, 480 p. front., plates, maps (1 fold.) 18 cm). – Error in binding: p. 111-112 inserted after p. 98. – Part of the American Memory collection.
Language: English

Transatlantic Sketches, Comprising Visits to the Most Interesting Scenes in North and South America, and the West Indies. With Notes on Negro Slavery and Canadian Emigration. By Capt. J. E. Alexander […] / Alexander, James Edward, Sir (1803-1885)

Part of: American Notes. Travels in America, 1750-1920 / Library of Congress : General Collections
Related Names: Mccollum, Steve (comp.) et al.
Release: Washington, D. C., Sep 2003
Extent: 43 pages
Last Visit: Nov 2, 2003.
Technical Notes: Facsimile page images (GIF format) and full text (HTML format) of original. SGML version also available (requires special viewer). — Not covered by the Slave-Studies.net search engine.
Notes: Originally published Philadelphia: Key and Biddle, 1833 (vii, [9]-378 p. 25 cm). – Part of the American Memory collection.
Language: English
Description: The author visited British Guiana, Barbadoes, Tobago, Trinidad, Grenada, St. Vincents, Jamaica, and Cuba; thence up the Mississippi through Canada and the eastern United States. (From LC Catalog.)

Travels in South and North America / Marjoribanks, Alexander

Part of: American Notes. Travels in America, 1750-1920 / Library of Congress : General Collections
Related Names: Mccollum, Steve (comp.) et al.
Release: Washington, D. C., Sep 2003
Extent: 36 pages
Last Visit: Nov 2, 2003.
Technical Notes: Facsimile page images (GIF format) and full text (HTML format) of original. SGML version also available (requires special viewer). — Not covered by the Slave-Studies.net search engine.
Notes: Originally published London: Simpkin, Marshall, and co.; New York: D. Appleton and co., 1854 (xiv, 480 p. col. front., illus. 22 cm). – Part of the American Memory collection.
Language: English

Twelve Years in America. Being Observations on the Country, the People, Institutions and Religion; With Notices of Slavery and the Late War; And Facts and Incidents Illustrative of Ministerial Life and Labor in Illinois, with Notes of Travel Through the United States and Canada. By the Rev. James Shaw […] / Shaw, James (fl. 1867-1899)

Part of: American Notes. Travels in America, 1750-1920 / Library of Congress : General Collections
Related Names: Mccollum, Steve (comp.) et al.
Release: Washington, D. C., Sep 2003
Extent: 32 pages
Last Visit: Nov 2, 2003.
Technical Notes: Facsimile page images (GIF format) and full text (HTML format) of original. SGML version also available (requires special viewer). — Not covered by the Slave-Studies.net search engine.
Notes: "Second thousand." Originally published London: Hamilton, Adams, and co.; Chicago: Poe and Hitchcock; [etc. etc.], 1867 (xvi, 440 p. : front., fold. map; 19 cm). – Part of the American Memory collection.
Language: English

The Uprising of a Great People. The United States in 1861. To Which Is Added A Word of Peace on the Difference Between England and the United States. From the French of Count Agénor De Gasparin / Gasparin, Agénor, comte de (1810-1871)

Related Name: Booth, Mary L[ouise] (1831-1889) (transl.)
Part of: American Notes. Travels in America, 1750-1920 / Library of Congress : General Collections
Related Names: Mccollum, Steve (comp.) et al.
Release: Washington, D. C., Sep 2003
Extent: 27 pages
Last Visit: Nov 2, 2003.
Technical Notes: Facsimile page images (GIF format) and full text (HTML format) of original. SGML version also available (requires special viewer). — Not covered by the Slave-Studies.net search engine.
Notes: Originally published New York, C. Scribner, 1862 (1 p. l., [v]-xiv p., 1 l., [9]-298 p. 19 cm). – Part of the American Memory collection.
Language: English

A Visit to the United States in 1841 / Sturge, Joseph (1793-1859)

Part of: American Notes. Travels in America, 1750-1920 / Library of Congress : General Collections
Related Names: Mccollum, Steve (comp.) et al.
Release: Washington, D. C., Sep 2003
Extent: 10 pages
Last Visit: Nov 2, 2003.
Technical Notes: Facsimile page images (GIF format) and full text (HTML format) of original. SGML version also available (requires special viewer). — Not covered by the Slave-Studies.net search engine.
Notes: Originally published Boston: Dexter S. King, 1842 (235, xciii p. ; 19 cm). – Part of the American Memory collection.
Language: English

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