American Scenes and Christian Slavery
A Recent Tour of Four Thousand Miles in the United States

American life and the slave trade during the nineteenth century, as observed by a British abolitionist, Ebenezer Davies.

Ebenezer Davies (Author)

9781108003872, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 20 July 2009

344 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2 cm, 0.44 kg

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.

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.

Subject Areas: History of the Americas [HBJK]