Lands of the Slave and the Free: Cuba, the United States, and Canada
London: John W. Parker and Son, 1855.
First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Two volumes in original brown cloth, 4.75 x 7.75 in. Vol I: 451 pp, with 8 plates and 2 maps (one folding); Vol. II: 479 pp + 4 (ads), with two plates. Bookplate on front pastedown of Volume I, occasional foxing, all else very good and sound. More travelogue than a treatise on slavery, with somewhat pompous but nonetheless interesting descriptions of American life, culture, and modes of transport. Murray traveled through New York State before heading west through Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Louisville, and St. Louis to New Orleans. He encountered a group of Mormons on the Mississippi and includes an appendix on "The Mormon Creed." From New Orleans he traveled to Havana, and from there back to the east coast of the United States, stopping in Baltimore and Richmond before heading north to Canada (Quebec, Toronto). About 60 pages of Volume II treat the problem of slavery. Flake-Draper #5677; Sabin 51497.
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