New travels in the United States of America, performed in M. DCC. LXXXVIII. Containing the latest and most accurate observations on the character, genius and present state of the people and government of that country, their agriculture, commerce, manufactures and finances, quality and price of lands and progress of the settlements on the Ohio and the Mississippi, political and moral character of the Quakers and a vindication of that excellent sect from the misrepresentations of other travellers, state of the Blacks, progress of the laws for their emancipation and for the final destruction of slavery on that continent, accurate accounts of the climate, longevity, comparative tables of the probabilities of life between America and Europe, &c., &c.
Authors of source text
Etienne Clavière Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville
Contributions
- Joel Barlow
- translator
- Jeremiah Samuel Jordan
- publisher
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Brissot's account of America was written before the revolution as a lesson in liberty for the European people. Barlow translated the second, corrected edition, published in 1791 with a new, revised preface by the author explicitly referencing the revolution in France. This is the second edition, published after Brissot's death in 1793. It contains a new translator's preface and a posthumous biography by the editor.
On the different editions: Leech, Cosmopolitanism, p. 98.