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The Slave-Auction (continued)--"A Fine Young Woman"--A Man and his Wife--Jim, the Blacksmith--A Family--A Ploughboy--Cornelia--Another Jim--Tom, the House Boy--Edmund--Tom, and "his reserved rights"--A Carriage Driver--Margaret and her Child

Chapters

73. Chapter 73

The May Meetings--Dr. Bushnell's Striking Sermon--Two Anti-Slavery Meetings--A Black Demosthenes--Foreign Evangelical Society--A New Thing in the New World--The Home-Missionary...

63. Chapter 63

Departure from Philadelphia--A Communicative Yankee--Trenton--The Mansion of Joseph Bonaparte--Scenes of Brainerd's Labours One Hundred Years ago--First Impressions of New York-...

71. Chapter 71

Boston (continued)--The Old South--Unitarianism, and Connection between Church and State--A Welsh Service in an "Upper Room"--Laura Bridgman and the Wedding Ring--Oliver Caswell...

39. Chapter 39

The evening closed upon us, sailing pleasantly up the Mississippi. Having a beautiful moonlight night, we kept on our way. About seven o'clock we overtook a small fishing-boat l...

69. Chapter 69

A Fast-Day--Political Sermons--A Church of Coloured People--The Sabbath--Morning Service--Afternoon ditto and Dr. Hawes--Prayers at College Chapel--United Service in North Churc...

48. Chapter 48

Farewell to New Orleans--Revolting Bargain--"The Anglo Saxon" Steam-boat--Moderate Fare--Steam Navigation of the Mississippi--Steam boat and Railway Literature--Parting View of...

70. Chapter 70

The "Retreat"--Introductions to the Insane--Piety and Profanity --Service in the Fourth Church--Memorials of the Pilgrims--Dr. Bushnell and his Opinions--The Mother Church and i...

62. Chapter 62

A Sabbath at Baltimore (continued)--A Coloured Congregation--The Thought of seeing Washington abandoned--Departure from Baltimore --Coloured Ladies in the Luggage-Van--American...

61. Chapter 61

The railway from Cumberland to Baltimore is 178 miles long, and (like most lines in the States) is single. This fact is important, for our cousins, in boasting of the hundreds o...

51. Chapter 51

At 4 o'clock P.M. of February the 14th, we reached the mouth of the Arkansas. This is a noble river, navigable for 2,000 miles! Not twenty years ago, the remnants of the four gr...

41. Chapter 41

Think of a Sabbath in New Orleans! Curious to know how people did really pray and preach, with slavery and slave-trading in their vilest forms around them, I set off in search o...

67. Chapter 67

Trip to New Haven--Captain Stone and his Tender Feeling--Arrival in New Haven--A Call from Dr. Bacon and the Rev. Mr. Dutton--Newspapers--The Centre Church and Standing Order--T...

47. Chapter 47

Interview with a Baptist Minister--Conversation with a Young Man in the Baptist Church--The Presbyterian Church, and Dr. Scott again--A Peep at the House of Representatives of L...

64. Chapter 64

A Presbyterian Church in New York, and its Pastor--The Abbotts and their Institution--Union Theological Seminary--Dr. Skinner's Church--New York University--A threatening "Neces...

72. Chapter 72

A Peep at the House of Representatives in Albany--"The Chair is but a Man," &c.--Sailing down the Hudson--Dr. Spring--His Morning Sermon--Afternoon Service--Gough the great Lect...

68. Chapter 68

Before I take you to "Yale," let me show you the spot on the Green on which, in 1745, Whitfield, being refused admission to the Congregational church, preached in the open air,...

60. Chapter 60

Arriving at Pittsburg in the middle of the night of the 10th of March, we remained on board till morning. As we had been accustomed on this "Clipper No. 2" to breakfast at half-...

40. Chapter 40

From No. 181 of the "St. Charles's," we descended, after a good night's rest, to see some of the lions of the place. Here we are (thought I) in New Orleans--the metropolis of a...

56. Chapter 56

A Sabbath at Cincinnati--The Second Presbyterian Church--Mutilation of a Popular Hymn--The Rushing Habit--A wrong "Guess"--A German Sunday-School--Visit to a Church of Coloured...

58. Chapter 58

Stay at Cincinnati (continued)--The Orphan Asylum--A Coloured Man and a White Fop treated as each deserved--A Trip across to Covington--Mr. Gilmore and the School for Coloured C...

52. Chapter 52

The Ohio, the "beautiful river," is a magnificent stream formed by the confluence at Pittsburg of the Allegany and Monongahela Rivers, and is 1,008 miles long, constituting the...

49. Chapter 49

On the 10th of February we passed a great many sugar estates on both sides of the river, which would be agreeable objects but for the curse of slavery. For who can look with ple...

74. Chapter 74

But there is a class of things among them which men of well-regulated minds and habits cannot but detest. These, as they have come under my notice, I have pointed out. The chief...

50. Chapter 50

Voyage up the Mississippi (continued)--Grand Gulph and Big Black River--Snags--"I belong to myself, Sir"--Vicksburg and Lynch Law--A Man Overboard--"Drove of Horses, Mules, and...

55. Chapter 55

Visit to Lane Seminary (continued)--Dr. Beecher and his Gun--The College Library--Dr. Stowe and his Hebrew Class--History of Lane Seminary--Qualifications for Admission--The Cur...

42. Chapter 42

After sermon Dr. S. gave out a hymn, and told the congregation that the collection for the support of the "beneficiaries" of that church would be "taken up" that morning; adding...

53. Chapter 53

Stay at Cincinnati (continued)--Close of the Welsh Service--The Governor of Ohio and his Relatives--The "Black Laws"--Governor Bebb's Hostility to them--Dr. Weed and American Ve...

59. Chapter 59

1. _Its History and Progress_.--The first year of the present century found here but 750 inhabitants. In 1810 there were 2,540; in 1820, 9,602; in 1830, 24,381; in 1840, 46,382....

54. Chapter 54

In resuming my notice of the Democratic meeting, let me observe that the Democratic party in America is not very reputable. It is the war party, the pro-slavery party, the mob p...

57. Chapter 57

A lady, belonging to the Presbyterian Church at which I preached, kindly sent her carriage to take us about to see the city. We visited the new Roman Catholic Cathedral, one of...

43. Chapter 43

On that dreadful day, the 28th of January, on which we arrived in New Orleans, Jack Jones, a Welshman, was drowned in the Mississippi, in a generous effort to save another man f...

44. Chapter 44

Yes, she _was_ a "fine young woman," about 23 years of age, neatly dressed, not black, but slightly coloured. The auctioneer was a sleek-looking fellow, with a face that indicat...

45. Chapter 45

Finding that another slave-auction was to be held at noon next day in the St. Louis Exchange, I resolved to attend. The day was dull and dirty. "Please, sir," said I to the firs...

46. Chapter 46

Sale of Women--Second Sabbath in New Orleans--Cricket in front of the Presbyterian "Church"--The Baptist "Church"--A Peep at an American Sabbath-School--Proceedings in "Church"-...

66. Chapter 66

During my stay at this time in New York, there died in that city the Rev. Theodore Sedgwick Wright, a Presbyterian minister of colour. His attainments and talents were very resp...

38. Chapter 38

The ill health of my wife, occasioned by long residence amid the sultry swamps of Guiana, compelled me a few months ago to accompany her on a visit to the United States of Ameri...

65. Chapter 65

The next day my wife and I paid our promised visit to the institution of the Abbotts at Mount Vernon. In its government there are neither rewards nor punishments; but each pupil...

27. Chapter 27

A Presbyterian Church in New York, and its Pastor--The Abbotts and their Institution--Union Theological Seminary--Dr. Skinner's Church--New York University--A threatening "Neces...

34. Chapter 34

Boston (continued)--The Old South--Unitarianism, and Connection between Church and State--A Welsh Service in an "Upper Room"--Laura Bridgman and the Wedding Ring--Oliver Caswell...

10. Chapter 10

Interview with a Baptist Minister--Conversation with a Young Man in the Baptist Church--The Presbyterian Church, and Dr. Scott again--A Peep at the House of Representatives of L...

33. Chapter 33

The "Retreat"--Introductions to the Insane--Piety and Profanity-- Service in the Fourth Church--Memorials of the Pilgrims--Dr. Bushnell and his Opinions--The Mother Church and i...

19. Chapter 19

A Sabbath at Cincinnati--The Second Presbyterian Church--Mutilation of a Popular Hymn--The Rushing Habit--A wrong "Guess"--A German Sunday-School--Visit to a Church of Coloured...

21. Chapter 21

Stay at Cincinnati (continued)--The Orphan Asylum--A Coloured Man and a White Fop treated as each deserved--A Trip across to Covington--Mr. Gilmore and the School for Coloured C...

16. Chapter 16

Stay at Cincinnati (continued)--Close of the Welsh Service--The Governor of Ohio and his Relatives--The "Black Laws"--Governor Bebb's Hostility to them--Dr. Weed and American Ve...

35. Chapter 35

A Peep at the House of Representatives in Albany--"The Chan is but a Man," &c.--Sailing down the Hudson--Dr. Spring--His Morning Sermon--Afternoon Service--Gough the great Lectu...

9. Chapter 9

Sale of Women--Second Sabbath in New Orleans--Cricket in front of the Presbyterian "Church"--The Baptist "Church"--A Peep at an American Sabbath School--Proceedings in "Church"-...

36. Chapter 36

The May Meetings--Dr. Bushnell's Striking Sermon--Two Anti-Slavery Meetings--A Black Demosthenes--Foreign Evangelical Society--A New Thing in the New World--The Home-Missionary...

11. Chapter 11

Farewell to New Orleans--Revolting Bargain--"The Anglo Saxon" Steam-boat--Moderate Fare--Steam Navigation of the Mississippi --Steam-boat and Railway Literature--Parting View of...

13. Chapter 13

Voyage up the Mississippi (continued)--Grand Gulph and Big Black River--Snags--"I belong to myself, Sir"--Vicksburg and Lynch Law--A Man Overboard--"Drove of Horses, Mules, and...

26. Chapter 26

Departure from Philadelphia--A Communicative Yankee--Trenton--The Mansion of Joseph Bonaparte--Scenes of Brainerd's Labours One Hundred Years ago--First Impressions of New York-...

25. Chapter 25

A Sabbath at Baltimore (continued)--A Coloured Congregation--The Thought of seeing Washington abandoned--Departure from Baltimore --Coloured Ladies in the Luggage-Van--American...

30. Chapter 30

Trip to New Haven--Captain Stone and his Tender Feeling--Arrival in New Haven.--A Call from Dr. Bacon and the Rev. Mr. Dutton--Newspapers--The Centre Church and Standing Order--...

32. Chapter 32

A Fast-Day--Political Sermons--A Church of Coloured People--The Sabbath--Morning Service--Afternoon ditto and Dr. Hawes--Prayers at College Chapel--United Service in North Churc...

7. Chapter 7

The Slave-Auction (continued)--"A Fine Young Woman"--A Man and his Wife--Jim, the Blacksmith--A Family--A Ploughboy--Cornelia--Another Jim--Tom, the House Boy--Edmund--Tom, and...

18. Chapter 18

Visit to Lane Seminary (continued)--Dr. Beecher and his Gun--The College Library--Dr. Stowe and his Hebrew Class--History of Lane Seminary--Qualifications for Admission--The Cur...

2. Chapter 2

1. Chapter 1

24. Chapter 24

14. Chapter 14

28. Chapter 28

37. Chapter 37

22. Chapter 22

12. Chapter 12

23. Chapter 23

5. Chapter 5

15. Chapter 15

20. Chapter 20

31. Chapter 31

3. Chapter 3

29. Chapter 29

17. Chapter 17

6. Chapter 6

8. Chapter 8

4. Chapter 4