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.