'it appeared to me that the greatest and best feelings of the human heart were paralyzed by the relative positions of slave and owner'
In Domestic Manners of the Americans Frances Trollope recounts her travels through America between 1827 and 1830, describing her voyage up the Mississippi from New Orleans, a two-year stay in Cincinnati, and a subsequent tour of Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York. A transatlantic best-seller on publication in 1832, its forthright criticisms of American manners encompassed spitting, religious extremism, ladies' dress, the relentless pursuit...

Frances Trollope's famously caustic memoir of life in early nineteenth-century America is now available with all of its original illustrations.