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Singerman ID#supp1580

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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Singerman ID#supp1580

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.

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."