Excerpts from "A Second Visit to the United States of North America" by Sir Charles Lyell, an English geologist.
In the passages Lyell describes the physical characteristics of the Tombigbee River and gulf coast in Alabama; discrimination against African Americans in both the North and the South; implications of emancipation for the economic and social positions of white Americans; and the encroachment of Prot...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Summary: | In the passages Lyell describes the physical characteristics of the Tombigbee River and gulf coast in Alabama; discrimination against African Americans in both the North and the South; implications of emancipation for the economic and social positions of white Americans; and the encroachment of Protestantism on Catholic traditions, such as Mardi Gras in New Orleans. |
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