Abstract

Three British Views of America

This article focuses on three books, which discuss British views of the United States. The books are "Impressions of America," by R.W. Dale; "The Outcome of a Visit to the United States," by George Campbell; and "Through the Light Continent; or, the United States in 1877-8," by William Saunders. Dale appears to have visited out of New England only the larger cities of the North, and to have been excellently taken care of by the ministers of his own denomination in New Haven and elsewhere. George Campbell certainly made the most of his time, and took an extended trip through the South, making it a special point to investigate the relations of the whites and blacks and the condition, social and political, of the States, which had recently thrown off the carpet-bag rule when he visited them.