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d the uplift of the Negroes. SCHOEPF, JOHANN DAVID. _Reise durch der Mittlern und Sudlichen Vereinigten Nordamerikanischen Staaten nach Ost-Florida und den Bahama Inseln unternommen in den Jahren 1783 und 1784._ (Cincinnati, 1812.) A translation of this work was published by Alfred J. Morrison at Philadelphia in 1911. Gives general impressions. SMYTH, J.F.D. _A Tour in the United States_. (London, 1848.) This writer incidentally mentions the people of color. SUTCLIFF, ROBERT. _Travels in Some Parts of North America in the Years 1804, 1805, and 1806_. (Philadelphia, 1812.) While traveling in slave territory Sutcliff studied the mental condition of the colored people. BOOKS OF TRAVEL BY AMERICANS BROWN, DAVID. _The Planter, or Thirteen Years in the South_. (Philadelphia, 1853.) Here we get a Northern white man's view of the heathenism of the Negroes. BURKE, EMILY. _Reminiscences of Georgia_. (Oberlin, Ohio, 1850.) Presents the views of a woman who was interested in the uplift of the Negro race. EVANS, ESTWICK. _A Pedestrious Tour of Four Thousand Miles through the Western States and Territories during the Winter and Spring of 1818_. (Concord, N.H., 1819.) Among the many topics treated is the author's contention that the Negro is capable of the highest mental development. 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, i860.) ---- _Journeys and Explorations in the Cotton Kingdom_. (London, 1861.) Olmsted was a New York farmer. He recorded a few important facts about the education of the Negroes immediately before the Civil War. PARSONS, E.G. _Inside View of Slavery, or a Tour among the Planters_. (Boston, 1855.) The introduction was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It was published to aid the antislavery cause, but in describing the condition of Negroes the author gave some educational statistics. REDPATH, JAMES. _The Roving Editor, or Talks with Slaves in Southern States_. (New York 1859.) The slaves are here said to be telling their own story. SMEDES, MRS. SUSAN (DABNEY). _Memorials of a Southern Planter_. (Baltimore, 1887.) The benevolence of those masters who had their slaves taught in spite of public opinion and the law, is well brought out in this volume. TOWER, REVEREND PHILO. _Slavery Unmasked_. (Rochester, 1856.) Valuable chiefly for the author's arraignment of the so-
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