Colonials Abroad [NY Times Book Review]

[wlotus]

A review of a book slave2tehtink and anyone else interested in early American history may find fascinating.

In the decades before the Declaration of Independence, thousands of American colonists visited London. Wealthy Southern plantation owners and New England merchants, husbands and wives, children and slaves all arrived in what was thought to be the most

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[saffronrose]

Someone on the Regency [era--approx,. that of Napoleon] posted the URL to this review. I thought Scipio quite clever.

BTW, you might like to look at sbisson's journal (I have suggested that he look at yours--the non-fl-locked ones, of course). He & his wife are freelance IT journalists from an area of London, and I met them in 2002 while they were here for the World SF Con (ConJose). He is a very good amateur photographer, taking most nature pictures, and you might like to "meet" him. You both put a lot of love and attention in your work.

[mallorys_camera]

Interesting. Although being fascinated by history and having read a lot about this period, I think Paris was every bit as popular as London as an international finishing school.

the slave who got himself arrested (deliberately?) just before his master was set to return to America, served his time, and was released a free man who remained in Britain

Sally Hemmings who accompanied Jefferson to Paris thought long and hard about going back to the States. She was free in Paris; she was a slave in Virginia. I am still boggled that she went back with Jefferson -- what a choice, eh? One of her brothers remained in Paris, a free man.