Life and Liberty in America; or, Sketches of a Tour in the United States and Canada in 1857-8. With Ten Illustrations.
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Link Singerman ID: supp1580
Year: 1859
Entry: Mackay, Charles. Life and Liberty in America; or, Sketches of a Tour in the United States and Canada in 1857-8. With Ten Illustrations. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1859. 413 p., [2] p. of adv.
Author/Editor: Mackay, Charles
Location: New York, NY
Holdings: In most academic libraries
Title: Life and Liberty in America; or, Sketches of a Tour in the United States and Canada in 1857-8. With Ten Illustrations.
Printer/Publisher: Harper & Brothers
Language: English
Notes: Scattered references to Jews, as in the one found on p. 203 about the rural store owned by a German Jew in Pimlico, Va. It was frequented by plantation slaves who exchanged property stolen from the homes of their masters for tobacco and whisky "at most nefarious profit to the Jew receiver."