Retrospect of Western Travel, Volume 2 (of 2)
- Language:
- English
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- Clean text
- Extent:
- ~100,000 words · 490 passages
Cite this work
- APAHarriet Martineau. (n.d.). Retrospect of Western Travel, Volume 2 (of 2). SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/harriet-martineau/retrospect-of-western-travel-volume-2-of-2
- MLAHarriet Martineau. "Retrospect of Western Travel, Volume 2 (of 2)." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/en/works/harriet-martineau/retrospect-of-western-travel-volume-2-of-2.
- ChicagoHarriet Martineau. Retrospect of Western Travel, Volume 2 (of 2). SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/harriet-martineau/retrospect-of-western-travel-volume-2-of-2.
What it is about
Volume 2 of two: what she saw in the United States between 1834 and 1836, slavery in the South included.
Context and history
**Warning: the catalogue holds only volume 2 of TWO; the first is missing.** Martineau travelled America deaf, with an ear trumpet, and published an abolitionist testimony that earned her lynching threats.
Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.
Mississippi Voyage 5 Compromise 26 Cincinnati 35 Probation 57 The Natural Bridge 65 Colonel Burr 69 Villages 78 Cambridge Commencement 91 The White Mountains 108 Channing 117 Mutes and Blind 128 Nahant 155 Signs of the Times in Massachusetts 159 Hot and Cold Weather 169 Originals 186 Lake George 221 Cemeteries 227 RETROSPECT OF WESTERN TRAVEL. MISSISSIPPI VOYAGE. "That it was full of monsters who devoured canoes as well as men; that the devil stopped its passage, and sunk all those who ventured to approach the place where he stood; and that the river itself at last was swallowed up in the bottomless gulf of a tremendous whirlpool."--_Quarterly Review._ "Hic ver purpureum: varios hic flumina circum Fundit humus flores: hic candida populus antro Imminet, et lentæ texunt umbracula vites." VIRGIL. About four o
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