<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<mods xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3" version="3.1" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-1.xsd">
  <titleInfo>
    <title>John Benwell papers, 1846-1852</title>
  </titleInfo>
  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Benwell, John.</namePart>
    <role>
      <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm>
    </role>
  </name>
  <typeOfResource collection="yes" manuscript="yes">mixed material</typeOfResource>
  <originInfo>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
  </originInfo>
  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
  </language>
  <physicalDescription>
    <extent>2</extent>
  </physicalDescription>
  <abstract>Holograph manuscript entitled "On the Moral and Physical Condition of the Slave in North America," describing Benwell's travels through the southern United States in 1840 and his observations on slavery, the railroads, and the writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe.  Also included is a commonplace-book entitled "Christian Ethics and Precepts."</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Author and traveler.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <note>Forms part of: Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Stowe, Harriet Beecher</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1811-1896</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Commonplace books</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Railroads</topic>
    <geographic>Southern States</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Slavery</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Southern States</geographic>
    <topic>Description and travel</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Authors</occupation>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Travelers</occupation>
  </subject>
  <identifier type="lccn">mm 82003981</identifier>
  <accessCondition type="restrictionOnAccess">Open to research.</accessCondition>
  <recordInfo>
    <recordContentSource authority="marcorg">DLC</recordContentSource>
    <recordCreationDate encoding="marc">820622</recordCreationDate>
    <recordChangeDate encoding="iso8601">20260227111711.0</recordChangeDate>
    <recordIdentifier source="DLC">mm 82003981 </recordIdentifier>
  </recordInfo>
</mods>
