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Book/Printed Material Transatlantic sketches, comprising visits to the most interesting scenes in North and South America, and the West Indies. With notes on negro slavery and Canadian emigration.

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Title

  • Transatlantic sketches, comprising visits to the most interesting scenes in North and South America, and the West Indies. With notes on negro slavery and Canadian emigration.

Names

  • Alexander, James Edward, Sir, 1803-1885.

Created / Published

  • Philadelphia, Key and Biddle, 1833.

Headings

  • -  United States--Description and travel
  • -  Guyana--Description and travel
  • -  West Indies, British--Description and travel
  • -  Cuba--Description and travel
  • -  Canada--Description and travel

Notes

  • -  The author visited British Guiana, Barbados, Tobago, Trinidad, Grenada, St. Vincents, Jamaica, and Cuba; thence up the Mississippi through Canada and the Eastern United States.

Medium

  • vii, [9]-378 p. 25 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • E165 .A38

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 02001704

OCLC Number

  • 1625623

Online Format

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  • pdf

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The contents of the Library of Congress American Notes: Travels in America, 1750 to 1920 Collection are in the public domain and are free to use and reuse.

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Chicago citation style:

Alexander, James Edward, Sir. Transatlantic sketches, comprising visits to the most interesting scenes in North and South America, and the West Indies. With notes on negro slavery and Canadian emigration. Philadelphia, Key and Biddle, 1833. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/02001704/.

APA citation style:

Alexander, J. E. (1833) Transatlantic sketches, comprising visits to the most interesting scenes in North and South America, and the West Indies. With notes on negro slavery and Canadian emigration. Philadelphia, Key and Biddle. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/02001704/.

MLA citation style:

Alexander, James Edward, Sir. Transatlantic sketches, comprising visits to the most interesting scenes in North and South America, and the West Indies. With notes on negro slavery and Canadian emigration. Philadelphia, Key and Biddle, 1833. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/02001704/>.