Bartram, William | Gregory A. Waselkov (essay date 1995)
Gregory A. Waselkov (essay date 1995)
SOURCE: Waselkov, Gregory A. “Travels through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida. …” In William Bartram on the Southeastern Indians, edited by Gregory A. Waselkov and Kathryn E. Holland Braund, pp. 25-32. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995.
[In the following essay, Waselkov examines the evolution of the manuscript of Bartram's Travels and its general reception.]
William Bartram's Travels has been dubbed “the most astounding verbal artifact of the early republic.”1 Indeed, Bartram's work, which “presents itself at various times as a travel journal, a naturalist's notebook, a moral and religious effusion, an ethnographic essay, and a polemic on behalf of the cultural institutions and the rights of American Indians,” is a true classic of American literature.2 Travels is based on Bartram's field notes,...
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