In 1866 and 1867 the young Charles Dilke travelled through Virginia and the post-war South, New York, Canada, the American West by the Pacific Railroad, New Zealand, Australia and India. He reports on politics, emigration, labour and colonial rule, guided by the idea of a single English-speaking race; its racial thinking is very much of 1868.
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