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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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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.Electronic reproduction.Washington, D.C. :Library of Congress,[2002-2003]
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  1. Canada
  2. Cuba
  3. Description And Travel
  4. Guyana
  5. United States
  6. West Indies, British

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