| Titre : | The Slave States Of America : Volume 1 | | Type de document : | texte imprimé | | Auteurs : | James Silk Buckingham, Auteur | | Editeur : | Cambridge [United Kingdom] : Cambridge University Press | | Année de publication : | 2011 | | Collection : | Cambridge Library Collection | | Importance : | 486p | | Présentation : | ill.,couv.en coul | | Format : | 13.8x21.5cm | | ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-1-108-03345-9 | | Langues : | Anglais | | Catégories : | LITTERATURE ET LANGUE ANGLAISE:427 Historical geographical
| | Mots-clés : | American History General Interest Social and Population History Historical Geography History Early Republic and Antebellum History North American History | | Résumé : | his historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1842. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAP. XXXVI. Journey from Augusta to Charleston by railroad--Alligators and vultures--Unhealthiness of the rice-grounds--Ghastly complexions of the whites--Practice of eating a sweet kind of clay--Arrival at Charleston--Sudden street-duel--Affrays and murders in Southern States--Effects produced by the system of Slavery--Picture of the present distress in Mississippi--Jefferson's opinion of the examples of Slavery--Dread of Abolition--Resemblance of the Battery of Charleston to that of New York--Episcopal churches--Excursion in the Neptune to Sullivan's Island--Temperance meeting--" God save the King," by an American choir--Commercial convention--New military guardhouse--Insurrection of the slaves--Difficulties in the way of immediate emancipation--The trinket-worm--Handwriting of the Southern ladies--Fireflies from Havannah. On Saturday, the 25th of May, we left Augusta at five in the morning, and crossing over the Savannah river by the bridge, we got into the railroad cars at the village of Hamburgh, and started on our journey to Charleston at six o'clock. This railroad was originally laid across all the hollow and swampy parts of the way on the ends of perpendicular posts; and in many places these rose to a height of twenty feet above the lower level; so that a turn off the road by the engine and cars would have been fatal to all embarked in them; and even the looking over on each side affected the passengers disagreeably. It was found, indeed, to be so objectionable, that for the last year a number of men have been employed filling up these hollows, and the work is now nearly USE OF THE PUNKAH. 549 complete. This has occasioned, however, so much outlay of expense, that the State Legislature has passed an act authorizing the directors of the railroad to raise... |
The Slave States Of America : Volume 1 [texte imprimé] / James Silk Buckingham, Auteur . - Cambridge (United Kingdom) : Cambridge University Press, 2011 . - 486p : ill.,couv.en coul ; 13.8x21.5cm. - ( Cambridge Library Collection) . ISBN : 978-1-108-03345-9 Langues : Anglais | Catégories : | LITTERATURE ET LANGUE ANGLAISE:427 Historical geographical
| | Mots-clés : | American History General Interest Social and Population History Historical Geography History Early Republic and Antebellum History North American History | | Résumé : | his historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1842. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAP. XXXVI. Journey from Augusta to Charleston by railroad--Alligators and vultures--Unhealthiness of the rice-grounds--Ghastly complexions of the whites--Practice of eating a sweet kind of clay--Arrival at Charleston--Sudden street-duel--Affrays and murders in Southern States--Effects produced by the system of Slavery--Picture of the present distress in Mississippi--Jefferson's opinion of the examples of Slavery--Dread of Abolition--Resemblance of the Battery of Charleston to that of New York--Episcopal churches--Excursion in the Neptune to Sullivan's Island--Temperance meeting--" God save the King," by an American choir--Commercial convention--New military guardhouse--Insurrection of the slaves--Difficulties in the way of immediate emancipation--The trinket-worm--Handwriting of the Southern ladies--Fireflies from Havannah. On Saturday, the 25th of May, we left Augusta at five in the morning, and crossing over the Savannah river by the bridge, we got into the railroad cars at the village of Hamburgh, and started on our journey to Charleston at six o'clock. This railroad was originally laid across all the hollow and swampy parts of the way on the ends of perpendicular posts; and in many places these rose to a height of twenty feet above the lower level; so that a turn off the road by the engine and cars would have been fatal to all embarked in them; and even the looking over on each side affected the passengers disagreeably. It was found, indeed, to be so objectionable, that for the last year a number of men have been employed filling up these hollows, and the work is now nearly USE OF THE PUNKAH. 549 complete. This has occasioned, however, so much outlay of expense, that the State Legislature has passed an act authorizing the directors of the railroad to raise... |
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The Slave States Of America
