SKETCHES OF PLACES AND PEOPLE ABROAD. BY WM. WELLS BROWN. WITH A MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR. "Go, little book, from this my solitude! I cast thee on the waters-go thy ways! And if, as I believe, thy vein be good, The world will find thee after many days." SOUTHEY. BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY JOHN P. JEWETT AND COMPANY. CLEVELAND, OHIO: JEWETT, PROCTOR & WORTHINGTON NEW YORK: SHELDON, LAMPORT & BLAKEMAN. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by JOHN P. JEWETT & CO., In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Stereotyped by New England Type and Stereotype Foundry, BOSTON. 2 коса 1944 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION. WHILE I feel conscious that most of the contents of these Letters will be interesting chiefly to American readers, yet I may indulge the hope that the fact of their being the first production of a Fugitive Slave as a history of travels may carry with them novelty enough to secure for them, to some extent, the attention, of the reading public of Great Britain, Most of the letters were written for the private perusal of a few personal friends in America; some were contributed to Frederick Douglass' Paper, a journal published in the United States. In a printed circular sent some weeks since to some of my friends, asking subscriptions to this volume, I stated the reasons for its publication : these need not be repeated here. To those who so promptly and kindly responded to that appeal, I tender my most sincere thanks. It is with no little diffidence that I lay these letters before the public; for I am not blind to the fact that they must contain many errors; and to those who shall find fault with them on that account, it may not be too much for me to ask them kindly to remember that the author was a slave in one of the Southern States of America until he had attained the age of twenty years; and that the education he has acquired was by his own exertions, he never having had a day's schooling in his life. W. WELLS BROWN. 22 CECIL STREET, STRAND, LONDON. NOTE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION. DURING my sojourn abroad I found it advantageous to my purse to publish a book of travels, which I did under the title of “Three Years in Europe, or Places I have seen and People I have met." The work was reviewed by the ablest journals in Great Britain, and from their favorable criticisms I have been induced to offer it to the American public, with a dozen or more additional chapters. BOSTON, November, 1854. W. W. B. |