Excursion through the Slave States, from Washington on the Potomac to the Frontier of Mexico
With Sketches of Popular Manners and Geological Notices
2 Volume Set
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- Author: George William Featherstonhaugh
- Date Published: September 2011
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- isbn: 9781108032827
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The English geologist George William Featherstonhaugh (1780–1866) was commissioned to undertake a survey of the Arkansas territory in America, and spent 1834–5 travelling through the southern slave states to reach his destination. He was shocked by the slave system of the south, saying he 'had never seen so revolting a sight'. When he began to write about his experiences, Featherstonhaugh was urged not to publish his work in the US, as his opinions might 'irritate a powerful interest', and his manuscript remained unpublished until 1844, after his return to England. His lively two-volume account of his adventures contains fascinating details about geology, fauna, and above all, human interactions. It is a closely observed record of Southern society in the period before the Civil War that candidly documents the violence experienced by Black slaves and Native Americans and the harsh conditions encountered by frontier settlers.
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- Date Published: September 2011
- format: Multiple copy pack
- isbn: 9781108032827
- length: 820 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 47 mm
- weight: 1.05kg
- contains: 10 b/w illus. 1 map
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Volume 1: Introduction
1. Barnum's Hotel at Baltimore
2. Ascent of the first Alleghany Ridges
3. A Virginia hotel in the mountains
4. The celebrated White Sulphur Springs
5. State of society at Compulsion Row
6. The system of Alleghany Ridges caused by an upheaval from below, and the White Sulphur Springs a consequence of the movement
7. Paying beforehand as bad as not paying at all
8. Depart on foot across the mountains to Fincastle
9. Cause of some confusion in the designation of the Alleghany Ridges explained
10. A pleasant party in a stage coach
11. A Negro-driver in mourning for a great patriot
12. Indian practice of burning the underwood to enable the natives to pursue the game
13. Description of Nashville
14. The religious sect of the Campbellites
15. Leave Nashville
16. Leave Louisville, and take to the stage-coach again
17. A remarkable barrow
18. Purchase a waggon
19. Departure from St. Louis
20. Taplitt and Perry's lead mines
21. Mine la Motte
22. Big Black River. Volume 2:
23. The 'Military Road'
24. Description of White River
25. Little Red River
26. State of Society at Little Rock
27. Apology for the manners of Arkansas
28. A concert of wolves
29. Arrive at Magnet Cove
30. Curious and beautiful mineral structure of the adjacent country
31. Leave the Hot Springs
32. Bear-hunting
33. Probable origin of prairies
34. Mr. Williams
35. Course and ancient channels of Red River
36. Reach Little Rock again
37. Approximative method suggested of calculating the age of fluviatile deposits
38. The steamer boarded by swindlers
39. The delta of the Mississippi
40. Quadroon young ladies, their hard fate
41. Embark in a steamer, and ascend the Mobile and Alabama
42. Description of the Muskogee or Creek people
43. The ruins of a nation
44. The gentlemen of America
45. Inside and outside passengers in chain
Concluding chapter.
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