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David Brown's memoir is a vivid account of life in the antebellum American South, as seen through the eyes of a plantation owner. It is a searing indictment of the institution of slavery and its corrosive effects on the human psyche, told with passion and eloquence.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the Unit...

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Excerpt from Curiosity Visits to Southern PlantationsMr. John Stuart Mill has said in the pages of Fraser's Magazine that the present war in America is carried on by the slave-owners for the privilege of burning negroes alive. A northern-american, who is neither a slave-owner nor has any interest in slavery, has desired to state whht he has himself seen of the actual condition and treatment of the negrocs in the Southern planta tions, and the ...

Excerpt from Letters From the South, Vol. 1 of 2IN order to lay a solid foundation for my travels, I ought first to tell how this new world was made and, secondly, how it was peopled, since, if it had never been made or peopled, it would not be worth Writing about. There are two ways of making a world, lately invented by the geologists - one by fire, the other by water. I mention these to show you it is no difficult matter, and you may take yo...

Excerpt from The Diplomatic Year: Being a Review of Mr. Seward's Foreign Correspondence of 1862Now let us look at this new volume of imposture and note its history, the circumstances of its publication, and, within certain limits, its contents. All are characteristic.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important histor...

Excerpt from Curiosity Visits to Southern Plantations The following sketches of Slave Life and Labour in the Confederate States of America, from the pen of a Northern Man, which recently appeared in Fraser's Magazine, are so unlike the familiar fictions of the Abolitionists, that the friends of the South, and of the Truth, deem it expedient to re-publish them in pamphlet form. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousa...

Excerpt from The Diplomatic Year: Being a Review of Mr. Seward's Foreign Correspondence of 1862Now let us look at this new volume of imposture and note its history, the circumstances of its publication, and, within certain limits, its contents. All are characteristic.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important histor...

Excerpt from Letters From the South, Vol. 1 of 2 Dear Frank, In order to lay a solid foundation for my travels, I ought first to tell how this new world was made, and, secondly, how it was peopled, since, if it had never been made or peopled, it would not be worth writing about. There are two ways of making a world, lately invented by the geologists - one by fire, the other by water. I mention these to show you it is no difficult matter, an...