Travels in Revolutionary France and A Journey Across America
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Travels in Revolutionary France and A Journey Across America
In July 1789, Welsh-born George Cadogan Morgan, the nephew of the celebrated radical dissenter Richard Price, found himself in France at the outbreak of the French Revolution. In 1808, his family left Britain for America, where his son, Richard Price Morgan, traveled extensively, made a descent of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers by raft, and helped build some of the early American railroads. The adventures of both men are related here via letters George sent home to his family from France and through the autobiography written by his son in America.
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
George Cadogan Morgan, Travels in Revolutionary France
Introduction: ‘A World of New Ideas’
Letters From France, Summer 1789
George Cadogan Morgan, Address to the Jacobine Societies (1792)
Introduction
An Address to the Jacobine and other Patriotic Societies of the French
Richard Price Morgan, A Journey Across America
Introduction
Autobiography of Richard Price Morgan, Senior
Select Bibliography
Index
Index to the main families