Title: The roving editor, or, Talks with slaves in the southern states /
Authors: Redpath, James, 1833-1891.; McKivigan, John R., 1949-
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press,
Year: 1996
Subjects: Slaves United States Social conditions; Southern States Description and travel.
Abstract: While a reporter at Horace Greeley's New York Tribune in the 1850s, James Redpath developed a strong curiosity about slavery and decided that he would travel south "to see slavery with my own eyes." Redpath interviewed slaves, recorded their opinions, and recounted them in the form of letters which he then published in antislavery newspapers under the pseudonym "John Ball, Jr." Redpath later collected these letters into book form, publishing them in 1859 as The Roving Editor.