![]() He protests that he has been influenced by no partisan bias none, at least, in the smallest degree unfriendly to fair investigation, and honest reporting. ![]() It was his disposition, also, to search for the causes and extenuating circumstances, past and present, of those phenomena which are commonly reported to the prejudice of the slaveholding community and especially of those features which are manifestly most to be regretted in the actual condition of the older Slave States. Journey, a determination to see things for himself, as far as possible, and to see them carefully and fairly, but cheerfully and kindly. He is sorry for it, but it cannot now be helped so at the outset, let the reader understand that he is invited to travel in company with an honest growler.īut growling is sometimes a duty and the traveler might well be suspected of being a "dead head," or a sneak, who did not find frequent occasion for its performance, among the notoriously careless, make-shift, impersistent people of the South.įor the rest, the author had, at the outset of his He is aware that it has one fault-it is too fault-finding. THE chief design of the author in writing this book has been, to describe what was most interesting, amusing, and instructive to himself, during the first three of fourteen months' traveling in our Slave States using the later experience to correct the erroneous impressions of the earlier. The author's observations on Cotton Plantations, and in the frontier and hill-country of the South, may form the subject of a subsequent volume. In the light of the experience then gathered, the letters have been revised, and, with much additional matter, are now presented to the public. IN the year 1853, the author of this work made a journey through the Seaboard Slave States, and gave an account of his observations in the "New York Daily Times," under the signature of "Yeoman." Those letters excited some attention, and their publication in a book was announced but, before preparing them for the press, the author had occasion to make a second and longer visit to the South. Southern States - Economic conditions.įinished TEI-conformant encoding and final proofing.ĪUTHOR OF "WALKS AND TALKS OF AN AMERICAN FARMER IN ENGLAND.".North Carolina - Description and travel.Southern States - Description and travel.Slaves - Southern States - Social conditions.Southern States - Social life and customs.Library of Congress Subject Headings, 24th edition, 2001 Spell-check and verification made against printed text using Author/Editor (SoftQuad) and Microsoft Word spell check programs. Indentation in lines has not been preserved. ![]() ![]() Removed, and the trailing part of a word has been joined toĪll quotation marks, em dashes and ampersand have been transcribed asĪll double right and left quotation marks are encoded as " and "Īll single right and left quotation marks are encoded as ' and ' respectively. Typographical errors have been preserved, and appear in red type.Īll footnotes are inserted at the point of reference within paragraphs.Īny hyphens occurring in line breaks have been Original grammar, punctuation, and spelling have been preserved. Recommendations for Level 4 of the TEI in Libraries Guidelines. The text has been entered using double-keying and verified against the original. The electronic edition is a part of the UNC-CHĭigitization project, Documenting the American South. SAMPSON LOW, SON, & CO., 47, LUDGATE HILL.Ĭall number C917 O51j (North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) (title page) A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States With Remarks on Their Economy University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Supported the electronic publication of this title.Īpex Data Services, Inc., Melissa G. | Buy DocSouth Books A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States įunding from the Institute for Museum and Library Services
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