New Travels in the United States of the America, 1788 / / J. P. Brissot de Warville; ed. by Durand Echeverria.

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• VerfasserIn: Brissot de Warville, J. P.,
• HerausgeberIn: Echeverria, Durand,
• TeilnehmendeR: Echeverria, Durand.; Vamos, Mara Soceanu.
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]; ©1964
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: Reprint 2013
• Language: English
• Series: The John Harvard Library ; 83
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (447 p.)

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PREFACE -- TABLE OF CURRENCIES OF THE UNITED STATES, COMPARED WITH THOSE OF EUROPE -- TABLE OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES OF THE UNITED STATES -- LETTERS FROM M. C LAVI ÈRE TO M. BRISSOT DE WARVILLE -- I Plan for the Study of the Political, Civil, Military, and Legislative Systems of the Free Americans -- II Nature of the Soil, Agricultural Products, Immigration, etc. -- III Plan for a Colony to Be Established in America -- IV [Sites for French Settlements] -- V [Opportunities for Investments in Land] -- VI The American Debt -- PLAN OF INVESTIGATION TO BE FOLLOWED DURING MY TRAVELS IN AMERICA -- LETTERS OF J . P. BRISSOT DE WARVILLE -- 1 Le Havre -- 2 The Commerce of Le Havre -- 3 The Voyage to America -- 4 Boston -- 5 Journey from Boston to New York -- 6 Journey from Boston to New York by Way of Providence -- 7 New York -- 8 Journey from New York to Philadelphia -- 9 Journey to Burlington and Visit to Mr. Temple Franklin -- 10 A Visit to a Quaker Farm -- 11 A Visit from the Good Warner Mifflin -- 12 A Quaker Funeral and a Quaker Meeting -- 13 Visit to a Bettering House -- 14 The Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane -- 15 Benjamin Franklin -- 16 An Invention for Navigating Against the Current–Thoughts on the Character of Americans and Englishmen -- 17 The Agricultural Society and the Library -- 18 The Market in Philadelphia and the Price of Foodstuffs -- 19 The General Assembly of Pennsylvania and a Description of Farm Owned by a Frenchman -- 20 A Journey by Two Frenchmen to the Ohio -- 21 The School for Negroes in Philadelphia–American Authors Who Have Written in Defense of Negroes -- 22 Efforts to Abolish the Slave Trade in the United States -- 23 The Laws for the Emancipation of Slaves Enacted by the Various States -- 24 The General Conditon of Negroes in the United States -- 25 Maple Sugar as a Substitute for Cane Sugar -- 26 A Plan to Transport American Negroes Back to Africa -- 27 Philadelphia -- 28 Farming Life and the Settlement of the Frontier in Pennsylvania -- 29 Climate and Disease in Pennsylvania -- 30 Common Diseases in the United States -- 31 Life Expectancy in the United States -- 32 The Philadelphia Prison -- 33 Quakers and Their Customs -- 34 Attacks Upon Quakers by Various Writers -- 35 The Growth of the Society of Friends–Their Religious Principles and System of Discipline -- 36 Quaker Political Principles -- 37 Journey to Mount Vernon -- 38 Observations on Maryland and Virginia -- 39 Virginia Tobacco and Tobacco Notes -- 40 The Shenandoah Valley -- 41 Journey from Boston to Portsmouth -- 42 The American Debt -- 43 American Imports -- 44 American Exports -- 45 The East Indies Trade–American Foreign Trade in General -- 46 The New Empire of the West -- INDEX -- Backmatter