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During his visit to Kentucky in the 1830s, Sir Charles Augustus Murray, a Scotsman, was dismayed at seeing the residen...

An  Englishman traveling through the American South in the mid-19th century gave an account of his conversation with a...

A report on ante-bellum violence in the nation's capital appeared in The New Monthly Magazine, published in London...

On the last Sunday of the year 1839, Francis Sheridan, an elegant young Irishman in the British diplomatic service, sailed from Barbados fo...

Nineteenth-century English readers enjoyed tales of savagery among the frontiersmen of their former American colonies and a number of travel...

From page 54 of Samuel Sydney's Emigrant's Journal , second series, published in 1850. I 
crossed the San An...

From The Gentleman’s Magazine , 1837, v. 1 , p. 33: Carrying a walking stick or hand cane is a good 
custom, and ...