New Travels in the United States of America by J -P (Jacques-Pier Brissot De Warville, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Title: New travels in the United States of America: performed in MDCCLXXXVIII: containing the latest and most accurate observations on the character, genius, and present state of the people and government of that country: their agriculture, commerce, manufactures, and finances, quality and price of lands, and progress of the settlements on the Ohio and Mississippi: political and moral character of the Quakers, and a vindication of that excellent sect from the misrepresentations of other travellers: state of the Blacks, progress of the laws for their emancipation, and for the final destruction of slavery on that continent: accurate accounts of the climate, longevity, comparative tables of the probabilities of life between America and Europe, &c. &c. Author: Brissot de Warville, J.-P. (Jacques-Pierre)Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500-1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U. S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more. Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more. Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington LibraryDocumentID: SABCP03978401CollectionID: CTRG02-B445PublicationDate: 17940101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: Translation by Joel Barlow of: Nouveau voyage dans les Etats-Unis de l'Am rique septentrionale fait en 1788 (Paris, 1791) Title page v.2: The commerce of America with Europe, particularly with France and Great Britain, comparatively stated, and explained by J. Brissot de Warville, assisted by Etienne Clavi ]re. Includes a life of tha uthor and an account of the conduct of the Girondine Party in the revolution of the thirty-first of May. Collation: 2 v.: port., fold. tab.; 22 cm | New Travels in the United States of America by J -P (Jacques-Pier Brissot De Warville, Paperback | Indigo Chapters