A Visit to the United States in 1841

A Quaker reformer records his 1841 visit to the United States, concentrating on the condition of enslaved people and efforts toward emancipation while reflecting on religious communities, legal reform, and prospects for peace. The narrative details visits to prisons and slave-holding institutions, meetings with abolitionists and members of the Society of Friends, and assessments of republican institutions in free states. It combines eyewitness reportage with moral argument and practical recommendations, and is supplemented by appendices containing letters, committee reports, case studies (including the Amistad captives), and contemporary anti-slavery documents.