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Tour in America in 1798, 1799, and 1800 - Exhibiting Sketches of Society and Manners, and a Particular Account of the America System of Agriculture, with Its Recent Improvements (Hardcover)
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Tour in America in 1798, 1799, and 1800 - Exhibiting Sketches of Society and Manners, and a Particular Account of the America System of Agriculture, with Its Recent Improvements (Hardcover)
Series: Travel in America
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Profoundly disappointed by his experiences in America, Richard
Parkinson's Tour in America 1798, 1799, 1800, originally published
in London in 1805, was expressly published to prevent emigration to
America, seeking to save those who seek to make their fortunes in
America from their "delusions." He notes that: "It will afford me
infinite pleasure if the publication of the following sheets,
giving an account of my disappointments in America, should have the
desired effect--that of preventing my countrymen from running
headlong into misery, as myself and many others have done." A
"practical farmer," Parkinson left England in 1798 after arranging
to "let" a parcel of land surrounding Mount Vernon from George
Washington himself. Coming to America to "Speculate to make a rapid
fortune," Parkinson found himself rapidly disappointed: "but
farming being my sole object in life, I found the climate and soil
there to be of such a nature as to put it out of the power of man
to enrich the land without such an enormous expence as (if he had
no other means than what the produce of the land would afford) must
ruin any one." Even more shocking, are the "notions of equality"
and he complains mightily of the "disrespectful manners of white
servants toward masters," finding it shocking that "The idea of
liberty and equality there destroys all the rights of the master,
and every man does as he likes." In decrying his experience in
America, Parkinson highlighted the very qualities that made America
and Americans of the late-eighteenth century what they were,
thereby showcasing the cultural and material divide between England
and her former colony.
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