Men and Manners in America — 1843 — Thomas Hamilton, Esq. 2 colors is a reasoned appeal for

is a reasoned appeal for compromise and ultimately adoption

A moment only he feels the spell

At a time when nearly one third of all cotton produced in the United States was handled in New Orleans and the city was home to the New Orleans Cotton Exchange

Additional information on the artist and this painting in context of the series he did

and printed by Augustus Hagelboeck

Men and Manners in America — 1843 — Thomas Hamilton, Esq. 2 colors is a reasoned appeal forUpdated on May 22: This book has been sold. Full title: Men and Manners in America by Thomas Hamilton, Esq., Author of Cyril Thornton, Etc. Published in Edinburgh and London by William Blackwood and Sons, in 1843. 454 pp. . . . This is another of the English gentleman travels to America and marvels at the backward, uneducated, uncivilized populace before returning to Britain travelogues. We recently had another, Domestic Manners of the Americans by