Box 1

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Voyage from New York

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St. Croix: copies of Gurney's poems; drawings, accounts

St. Thomas

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Tortola: meeting at which J.J. Gurney spoke

St Christopher's: poems, meeting with "colored population", visit to Moravian School for children of African descent

St. John's: plea for abolition, pruchase of a sugar estate by some "Negroes", copy of letter to Elizabeth Fry, other meetings reported

Danish Islands' Black population not freed, only English

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St Croix

Jamaica: preaching by J.J. Gurney, anti-slavery society resolutions

St. Amis Bay

Falmouth

Montego Bay

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At sea

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Havana: witnessed condition of housing for enslaved people and markets at which they are purchased

Savannah

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Savannah

Charleston

Washington: went to House of Representatives, met with Rep. Holmes, heard speeches in the Senate, including J.Q. Adams. Introduced to John C. Calhoun and discussed, with J.J. Gurney, the question of slavery, emancipation and its success in the West Indies. Met also with Henry Clay, President van Buren, James Monroe and others.

Travelling north, stopped at Burlington and were met by Stephen Grellet.

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Single-volume summary of the above journals, omitting the return trip and visit to Washington.

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Article appearing in the New York Evangelist, pasted into a notebook. Describes Mahlon Day's opinions on slavery based on his trip to the West Indies.

to Sarah Day. October 1, 1814. mind occupied with business and extra military duty; feels he must serve his country; many people fleeing into countryside for fear of invasion. to Sarah Day. November 19, 1814. would like to vacation when his business (a newspaper) is partially suspended; asks her opinion of his marrying someone. to children. 4 mo 19th to 4 mo 29th, 1854. Journal: voyage from New York to Liverpool on the...