Life and Liberty in America, Sketches of a Tour in the United States and Canada in 1857-8
In visiting a rice plantation, my object was not so much to satisfy myself that the slave-owners of America are kind to their negroes, as to satisfy the public opinion of Charleston that English travelers are not prejudiced against Southern proprietors... -from A Rice Plantation Life and Liberty in America in America. The title is intentionally ironic-Charles Mackay was well aware of the paradox of studying liberty in a slave-holding nation; his biting wit and extraordinarily opinionated personality shines through in this intriguing work. Subtitled Sketches of a Tour in the United Stat…
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- ISBN: 978-1-59605-431-8
- EAN: 9781596054318
- Produktnummer: 1905257
- Verlag: Cosimo Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 416 S.
- Masse: H20.3 cm x B12.7 cm x D2.4 cm 471 g
- Gewicht: 471
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