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Book Description: In visiting a rice plantation, my object was not so much to satisfy myself that the slave owners of America are kind to their negroes, as to satisfy the public opinion of Charleston that English travelers are not prejudiced against Southern proprietors... from 'A Rice Plantation' <P>LIFE AND LIBERTY IN AMERICA. The title is intentionally ironic Charles Mackay was well aware of the paradox of studying liberty in a slave holding nation; his biting wit and extraordinarily opinionated personality shines through in this intriguing work. Subtitled 'Sketches of a Tour in the United States and Canada in 1857 8' and first published in 1860, Mackay's impressions span the continent, from New York's Broadway at night which is far less the boulevard of vice Mackay expected, and nothing, he assures, to compare to the decadence of London or Paris to the Mormons of Utah McKay bitterly wonders why America's freedom of religion should extend to a faith he deems 'superstitious.' <P>As a document of America just prior to the Civil War, seen through the eyes of an outsider, this is a fascinating and historically important book.

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