Three Years in Europe

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Title: Three Years in Europe Places I Have Seen and People I Have
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Author: William Wells Brown
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THREE YEARS IN EUROPE;
Or, Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met
by
W. WELLS BROWN A Fugitive Slave.
With

A MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR
by
WILLIAM FARMER, Esq.
London: Charles Gilpin, 5, Bishopsgate Street, Without. Edinburgh:
Oliver and Boyd.
1852

[Illustration: W. Wells Brown.]

CONTENTS.
MEMOIR OF WILLIAM WELLS BROWN, Page ix-xxix
AUTHOR'S PREFACE, xxxi-xxxii
LETTER I.
Departure from Boston--the Passengers--Halifax--the Passage-- First
Sight of Land--Liverpool, 1-9
LETTER II.
Trip to Ireland--Dublin--Her Majesty's Visit--Illumination of the
City--the Birth-Place of Thomas Moore--a Reception, 9-21
LETTER III.
Departure from Ireland--London--Trip to Paris--Paris--The Peace
Congress: first day--Church of the Madeleine--Column Vendome-- the
French, 21-38
LETTER IV.
Versailles--The Palace--Second Session of the Congress--Mr.
Cobden--Henry Vincent--M. Girardin--Abbe Duguerry--Victor Hugo:
his Speech, 38-49
LETTER V.
M. de Tocqueville's Grand Soiree--Madame de Tocqueville--Visit of
the Peace Delegates to Versailles--The Breakfast--Speechmaking-- The
Trianons--Waterworks--St. Cloud--The Fete, 50-59
LETTER VI.
The Tuileries--Place de la Concorde--The Egyptian Obelisk--Palais
Royal--Residence of Robespierre--A Visit to the Room in which
Charlotte Corday killed Marat--Church de Notre Dame--Palais de
Justice--Hotel des Invalids--National Assembly--The Elysee, 59-73
LETTER VII.
The Chateau at Versailles--Private Apartments of Marie

Antoinette--The Secret Door--Paintings of Raphael and David-- Arc de
Triomphe--Beranger the Poet, 73-82
LETTER VIII.
Departure from Paris--Boulogne--Folkstone--London--Geo. Thompson,
Esq., M.P.--Hartwell House--Dr. Lee--Cottage of the Peasant--Windsor
Castle--Residence of Wm. Penn--England's First Welcome--Heath
Lodge--The Bank of England, 83-104
LETTER IX.
The British Museum--A Portrait--Night Reading--A Dark Day--A
Fugitive Slave on the Streets of London--A Friend in the time of need,
104-116
LETTER X.
The Whittington Club--Louis Blanc--Street Amusements--Tower of
London--Westminster Abbey--National Gallery--Dante--Sir Joshua
Reynolds, 117-134
LETTER XI.
York-Minster--The Great Organ--Newcastle-on-Tyne--The Labouring
Classes--The American Slave--Sheffield--James Montgomery, 134-145
LETTER XII.
Kirkstall Abbey--Mary the Maid of the Inn--Newstead Abbey:
Residence of Lord Byron--Parish Church of Hucknall--Burial Place of
Lord Byron--Bristol: "Cook's Folly"--Chepstow Castle and
Abbey--Tintern Abbey--Redcliffe Church, 145-162
LETTER XIII.
Edinburgh--The Royal Institute--Scott's Monument--John Knox's
Pulpit--Temperance Meeting--Glasgow--Great Meeting in the City Hall,
163-176
LETTER XIV.
Stirling--Dundee--Dr. Dick--Geo. Gilfillan--Dr. Dick at home, 177-184
LETTER XV.
Melrose Abbey--Abbotsford--Dryburgh Abbey--The Grave of Sir
Walter Scott--Hawick--Gretna Green--Visit to the Lakes, 185-196
LETTER XVI.
Miss Martineau--"The Knoll"--"Ridal Mount"--"The Dove's
Nest"--Grave of William Wordsworth, Esq.--The English Peasant,
196-207
LETTER XVII.

A Day in the Crystal Palace, 207-219
LETTER XVIII.
The London Peace Congress--Meeting of Fugitive Slaves--
Temperance Demonstration--The Great Exhibition: Last Visit, 219-226
LETTER XIX.
Oxford--Martyrs' Monument--Cost of the Burning of the Martyrs-- The
Colleges--Dr. Pusey--Energy, the Secret of Success, 227-235
LETTER XX.
Fugitive Slaves in England, 236-250
LETTER XXI.
A
Chapter on
American Slavery, 250-273
LETTER XXII.
A Narrative of American Slavery, 273-305
LETTER XXIII.
Aberdeen--Passage by Steamer--Edinburgh--Visit to the
College--William and Ellen Craft, 305-312

MEMOIR OF WILLIAM WELLS BROWN.
A narrative of the life of the author of the present work has been most
extensively circulated in England and America. The present memoir
will, therefore, simply comprise a brief sketch of the most interesting
portion of Mr. Brown's history while in America, together with a short
account of his subsequent cisatlantic career. The publication of his
adventures as a slave, and as a fugitive from slavery in his native land,
has been most valuable in sustaining a sound anti-slavery spirit in Great
Britain. His honourable reception in Europe may be equally serviceable
in America, as another added to the many practical protests previously
entered from this side of the Atlantic, against the absolute bondage of
three millions and a quarter of the human race, and the semi-slavery
involved in the social and political proscription of 600,000 free
coloured people in that country.
William Wells Brown was born at Lexington, in the state of Kentucky,
as nearly as he can tell in the autumn of 1814. In the Southern States of
America, the pedigree and age of a horse or a dog are carefully

preserved, but no record is kept of the birth of a slave. All that Mr.
Brown knows upon the subject is traditionally, that he was born "about
corn-cutting time" of that year. His