A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America
CHAPTER VII
Set out for New Orleans--Louisville--Mississippi steam-boats--the Ohio--the Mississippi--sugar plantations--the valley of the Mississippi--New Orleans--Quadroons--slavery--a Methodist slavite--runaway Negros--incendiary fires at Orleans--liberty of the press--laws passed by the legislature of Louisiana--Miss Wright--public schools--yellow fever--the Texas