OF

A RESIDENCE AND TOUR

IN

THE UNITED STATES

OF

NORTH AMERICA,

FROM APRIL, 1833, TO OCTOBER, 1834.

BY E. S. ABDY,

FELLOW OF JESUS COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.

"As far as experience may shew errors in our establishments, we are bound to
correct them; and, if any practices exist contrary to the principles of justice and
humanity, within the reach of our laws or our influence, we are inexcusable if we
do not exert ourselves to restrain and abolish them."-D. WEBSTER, Discourse at
Plymouth on the second centenary of the settlement of New England.

"The distinction of color is unknown in Europe."-Speech of Chancellor KENT
in the New York State Convention.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

MDCCCXXXV.

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INTRODUCTION.

A FEW words may perhaps be necessary to explain the chief objects of the following Work.

Having left England in company with two of his countrymen, one of whom (Mr. William Crawford) had been sent out by our Government to inspect the prisons of the United States, the Author was induced to remain after their return; and, finding the journal he had kept, contained what he thought might essentially serve the cause of humanity, he determined to sacrifice his reluctance to appear in print, and give a full and faithful picture of the cruelties he had witnessed.

If too much space should appear to be taken up by the same subject, it should be remembered that slavery, as it exists in America, comes home to our "business "" as well as to our bosoms ; and appeals no less to English pockets than to English

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sympathies; for the slave trade, which has cost us