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  3. Excursion through the Slave States, from Washington on the Potomac to the Frontier of Mexico
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 March 2012
      22 September 2011
      ISBN:
      9781139059268
      9781108032803
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139059268
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      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.51kg, 406 Pages
      • Subjects:
      American History: General Interest, Social and Population History, Historical Geography, History, Early Republic and Antebellum History
      Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - North American History
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    Subjects:
    American History: General Interest, Social and Population History, Historical Geography, History, Early Republic and Antebellum History
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - North American History
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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not to publish his work in the US, as his opinions might 'irritate a powerful interest', and his manuscript remained unpublished until 1844, after his return to England.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 a fascinating mixture of scientific and sociological detail. 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, Native Americans and frontier settlers. Volume 1 describes the Alleghany Mountains, Tennessee, Kentucky and Missouri.

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