Traveling South: Travel Narratives and the Construction of American Identity

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Index Abroad (Fussell), 10 Adams, Charles, 55, 207 (nn. 32, 36) Adams, Percy, 10 Age of Nationalism, 2 Allmendinger, Blake, 119 American identity: construction of, 7; as founded on movement, 1; and immigration, 1; and international travel, 1; struggle to define, 1 American Negro Slavery (Phillips), 83 Americans, The (Boorstin), 147 Anderson, Benedict: “imagined community” concept of, 2; on modern-nation characteristics, 6, 22, 143; on print culture, 22, 143; on U.S. founding documents, 7 Andrews, William, 70 Arac, Jonathan, 79 Articles of Confederation, 2–3, 6 Audubon, John James, 196 Baker, Houston, 65, 69, 70, 79, 81, 83, 210 (n. 5) Barbeito, Patricia, 24, 203 (n. 5) Bartram, John, 45; botanical garden of, 42; Florida trip of, 42; Linneaus’s view of, 41; portrait of, in Crèvecoeur’s Letters, 41–42; as Royal Botanist, 42; Travels in Pensilvania and Canada, 42 Bartram, William: and Alachua Savanna, 48–52; on alligators, 56–58; and American Revolution, 59; as businessman, 43; critical views of, 44; as disciple of Linneaus, 43; drawings of, for Fothergill, 42, 47, 48–51; as Enlightenment figure, 21, 42–43, 44; and epistemology, 15–16, 21; and father, 42; as forerunner of Emerson and Thoreau, 44; and Fothergill, John, 42–43, 47–48, 52; hurricane description of, 58–59; on Little Saint Johns River, 47–48; and narrative persona, 20; and Native Americans, 49, 53–55, 57, 58; and natural history, 46, 52; as nature writer, 196; as Puc-Puggy, 43; and report to Fothergill, 41–43, 45; as representative American, 15–16, 19, 44, 54, 56, 61; revisions of Travels by, 44, 209 (n. 49); and Romanticism, 21, 44; and Saint Johns River, 55–61; and slave narratives, 83, 84; and slavery, 43; soldiers compared with, 166, 190; and travel, 20; as traveler, 61–62; traveling companions of, 26. See also Travels (W. Bartram) Becker, Elizabeth C., 134, 220 (nn. 48, 50) Beecher, Catharine, 111 Beecher, Henry Ward, 186 Beidler, Philip, 41 Beveridge, Charles E., 143, 154, 221 (nn. 1, 8) Bhabha, Homi, 9 Bierce, Ambrose, 188, 189–90, 226 (n. 3), 228 (n. 19) Black and White Women’s Travel Narratives (Fish), 13 244 index Boorstin, Daniel, 147 Brace, Charles Loring, 141, 142, 222 (n. 9) Bremer, Fredrika, 105 Brent, Linda. See Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Jacobs); Jacobs, Harriet Brodhead, Richard, 195–96, 229 (n. 1) Brown, Gillian, 125, 218 (n. 24) Burson, William: and Andersonville Prison, 184; and Quakers, 183; and slavery’s effect on southern society, 175; and “Union League,” 184–85, 186; and Union sentiment in the South, 183–85 Butler, Pierce, 16, 114, 118, 121, 124. See also Kemble, Fanny Buzard, James, 12, 199 (n. 1), 200 (n. 10) Caesar, Terry, 11–12, 13 Carson, Barbara, 4 Chandler, Marilyn, 104 Citizenship: of black Americans, 64; and slavery, 66; travel as component of, 71 Civil War: movement of army during, 166, 168–70; number of travelers during, 165–66; and relationship of North and South, 191–92. See also Travelers, Civil War soldiers as Clark, Thomas, 171 Constitution, U.S., 3–4, 7 Corbett, Mary Jean, 108 Cotton Kingdom, The (F. L. Olmsted): as abolitionist text, 145, 222 (n. 9); argument of, 148–49; British attitudes toward, 146; creation of, 142, 145; influence of, on North, 146; method of, 148, 223 (n. 15); North/South division in, 143, 145; objectivity of, 146–48; as paradigmatic, 145; poor white view of, 154–55; publication of, 146; reception of, critical, 146–48; relation of, to Olmsted’s landscape architecture, 147–48; reviews of, 146; sales of, 222 (n. 10); tone of, 145–46 Coulter, E. Merton, 165, 227 (n. 9) Craddock, Charles Egbert (Mary Noailles Murfree), 194–96 Crèvecoeur, J. Hector St. John de: authorial voice of, 25; and Bartram, William, 61; and Charles Town (Charleston), 25; and definition of American, 6, 15; and Enlightenment, 35; and farmer ideal, 15; and middle colony, 24; and Olmsted, Frederick Law, 143; and ontology, 21; as representative American, 15, 20; and slave narratives, 67, 71; and slavery, 30–32; soldiers compared with, 190; and travel, 20, 25; as traveling farmer, 21; use of nature by, 35. See also James (narrator of Letters from an American Farmer); Letters from an American Farmer (Crèvecoeur) “Cult of True Womanhood,” 112–13 Curtis, Newton, 179–81, 183 “Dancin’ Party at Harrison’s Cove, The” (Murfree), 194–95 Declaration of Independence, 7 De Forrest, John William: and environment, 176–77; and...