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Title: A Visit To The United States In 1841

Author: Joseph Sturge

Release Date: March 5, 2004 [EBook #11454]

Language: English

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A VISIT TO THE UNITED STATES IN 1841

BY JOSEPH STURGE

1842

BOSTON: DEXTER S. KING, NO. 1 CORNHILL.
"'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower
Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume;
And we are weeds without it. All constraint,
Except what wisdom lays on evil men,
Is evil; hurts the faculties, impedes
Their progress in the road of science; blinds
The eyesight of discovery; and begets,
In those that suffer it, a sordid mind."


COWPER.





Preface to the American Edition

Preface to the English Edition

A Visit, &c.

General Observations

Appendix A: ANTI-SLAVERY EPISTLE OF "FRIENDS" IN GREAT BRITAIN.

Appendix B: EARLY EFFORTS OF "FRIENDS" IN BEHALF OF NEGRO

Appendix C: Report of the Committee of the Yearly Meeting of
Friends, &c.

Appendix D: ELISHA TYSON.

Appendix E: THE "AMISTAD CAPTIVES"

Appendix F: Extract from an Essay by WILLIAM JAY

Appendix G: OPIUM WAR WITH CHINA.

Appendix H: LETTER OF A.L. PENNOCK.

Appendix I: GERRIT SMITH'S SLAVES.

Appendix K: The Society of Friends in America and the
Colonization Society

Appendix L: Memorial of citizens of Boston, United States, to
the Lords of the Admiralty, Great Britain.







PREFACE

TO THE AMERICAN EDITION.


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