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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      25 October 2011
      22 September 2011
      ISBN:
      9781139059305
      9781108032858
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139059305
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      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.57kg, 448 Pages
      • Subjects:
      American History: General Interest, Area Studies, American Studies, Historical Geography, History, Early Republic and Antebellum History
      Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - North American History
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    Subjects:
    American History: General Interest, Area Studies, American Studies, Historical Geography, History, Early Republic and Antebellum History
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - North American History
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    Captain Basil Hall (1788–1844) was a Scottish seaman and travel writer. After attending the Royal High School in Edinburgh he joined the Navy in 1802, and was appointed captain in 1814. He served on many diplomatic and scientific naval missions, and on his retirement from the Navy began to publish accounts of his experiences, based on his journals. These volumes, first published in 1829, contain his detailed and controversial account of his journey across America and Canada between 1827 and 1828. Hall provides a fascinating and engaging description of social conditions, political structures and political tensions in Canada and America in the period, while also illustrating contemporary English prejudices concerning American society. Volume 3 contains his description of Washington D.C. and his journeys through South Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, Alabama and along the Mississippi river. Hall also includes an analysis of slavery and cotton farming in the southern states.

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