Traveling South: Travel Narratives and the Construction of American Identity

Contents

* * Contents Acknowledgments, ix Introduction, 1 chapter one Representing America: The American as Traveler in the Work of J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur and William Bartram, 19 chapter two Moving Slaves: Frederick Douglass, Solomon Northup, and the Politics of Travel in Antebellum America, 63 chapter three Domestic Travel: The Narratives of Fanny Kemble and Harriet Jacobs, 103 chapter four Yeomen All: Frederick Law Olmsted and the Consolidation of the American Economy and Culture, 141 chapter five Tourists with Guns (and Pens): Union Soldiers and the Civil War South, 165 Conclusion, 193 Notes, 199 Works Cited, 231 Index, 243 This page intentionally left blank ...