Black and White
A Journal of a Three Months' Tour in the United States

Latham hoped his letters would promote international understanding, but also reflected on the position of indigenous and Black Americans.

Henry Latham (Author)

9781108003940, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 20 July 2009

324 pages
21.6 x 14 x 1.8 cm, 0.41 kg

The British barrister Henry Latham's thoughtful letters, describing three months he spent in the United States, were published in 1867. His intention in recording the details of his travels was to encourage other Englishmen and women to visit their American cousins and make their own judgements as to their true manner and spirit. He expressed the hope that greater social contact would foster better understanding between the two nations. Latham remarked that Americans of that period were far more hospitable and hearty than the English, and observed that there existed in the land of freedom a highly motivating suspicion that contentment was a spurious kind of virtue invented by the English aristocracy. To his accounts of cities from Niagara and New York to Atlanta and New Orleans, Latham added supplementary chapters reflecting on the chances of survival for Black and indigenous Americans.

1. Liverpool
2. To New York
3. To Philadelphia
4. To Baltimore
5. To Washington
6. To Richmond
7. To Petersburg
8. To Norfolk
9. To Charleston
10. To Augusta
11. To Atlanta
12. To Mobile
13. To New Orleans
14. To San Jaques
15. To New Orleans
16. To Havanna
17. To New York
18. To Niagara
19. To Boston
20. To Philadelphia
21. To New York
22. To Liverpool
23. The negro
24. The Indian
25. The Fenians
26. The Alabama claims.

Subject Areas: History of the Americas [HBJK]