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on_. Mr. Epstein has published a helpful pamphlet, _The Negro Migrant in Pittsburgh_. Most of the material for this work, however, was collected from the various sources mentioned below. BOOKS OF TRAVEL Brissot de Warville, J. P. _New Travels in the United States of America: including the Commerce of America with Europe, particularly with Great Britain and France_. Two volumes. (London, 1794.) Gives general impressions, few details. Buckingham, J.S. _America, Historical, Statistical, and Descriptive_. Two volumes. (New York, 1841.)--_Eastern and Western States of America_. Three volumes. (London and Paris, 1842.) Contains useful information. Olmsted, Frederick Law. _A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States, with Remarks on their Economy_. (New York, 1859.)--_A Journey in the Back Country_. (London, 1860.) --_Journeys and Explorations in the Cotton Kingdom_. (London, 1861.) Olmsted was a New York farmer. He recorded a few important facts about the Negroes immediately before the Civil War. Woolman, John. _Journal of John Woolman, with an Introduction by John G. Whittier_. (Boston, 1873.) Woolman traveled so extensively in the colonies that he probably knew more about the Negroes than any other Quaker of his time. LETTERS Boyce, Stanbury. _Letters on the Emigration of the Negroes to Trinidad_. Jefferson, Thomas. _Letters of Thomas Jefferson to Abbe Gregoire, M.A. Julien, and Benjamin Banneker. In Jefferson's Works, Memorial Edition_, xii and xv. He comments on Negroes' talents. Madison, James. _Letters to Frances Wright_. In _Madison's Works_, vol. iii, p. 396. The emancipation of Negroes is discussed. May, Samuel Joseph. _The Right of the Colored People to Education_. (Brooklyn, 1883.) A collection of public letters addressed to Andrew T. Judson, remonstrating on the unjust procedure relative to Miss Prudence Crandall. McDonogh, John. "_A Letter of John McDonogh on African Colonization addressed to the Editor of the New Orleans Commercial Bulletin_." McDonogh was interested in the betterment of the colored people and did much to promote their mental development. BIOGRAPHIES Birney, William. _James G. Birney and His Times_. (New York, 1890.) A sketch of an advocate of Negro uplift. Bowen, Clarence W. _Arthur and Lewis Tappan_. A paper read at the fiftieth anniversary of the New York Anti-Slavery Society, at the Broadway Tabernacle, New York City, October 2, 1883. An hono
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