In the canon
American Notes for General Circulation
- Form
- Form Travel Writing
- Year
- Year 1842
- Pages
- Pages 300
Nothing prepares you for the last chapter. Dickens, the most famous writer in England and the toast of every American dinner table he sat at, ends his travel book by reprinting the newspaper advertisements for runaway slaves, verbatim, column after column: the brands, the scars, the iron collars, the missing teeth, each detail printed by an owner so his property might be recognised and returned.
I hold this slow and daily tampering with the mysteries of the brain, to be immeasurably worse than any torture of the body
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