Lynn’s Reviews > An Englishman's Travels in America His Observations of Life and Manners in the Free and Slave States > Status Update
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He then travels down the Mississippi River to New Orleans where he sees the number of Negros is about 5 to 1. They are treated horribly and there are slave bazzars and places where slaves can be sent to be punished horribly.
— Feb 11, 2013 12:53PM
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He also mentions quadroons, women slaves of mixed heritage kept as mistresses who live in luxury until the master tires of them and sells them off. Usually as house slaves as they are thought to be unfit for hard labor.
— Feb 11, 2013 12:54PM
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The author begins in NYC where he sees Negros being treated terribly when they try to shake a politician's hand who is campaigning. Then in Buffalo he hears how bad the Indians from Tonawanda are and witnesses their drunkenness at night followed by arrests and punishment.
— Feb 11, 2013 12:47PM
