Cambridge Scholars Publishing Sam Coverly's Journal with Historical Notes: Traveling and Trading in the Early Republic

Sam Coverly was an entrepreneur and an adventurous traveler. His trading took him to China and England, to Montreal and Washington, DC, and as far west as the Missouri Territory. His detailed descriptions of the people and places he visits will appeal to students of early American history and maritime and cultural historians. Born in 1793, the same year as George Washington began his second term as President of the United States, Sam lived to see national roads and a canal built to the western frontier and steamboats plying rivers and lakes. He saw a ten-fold population increase in his beloved Boston and a doubling of the country’s landmass. His journal and correspondence provide readers with eyewitness accounts of life in a rapidly expanding country at the threshold of industrialization and a transportation revolution. About the Author John Albertini taught linguistics, English as a second language, and writing to deaf and hearing students at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf at Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, USA. While there, he authored 27 research articles, 17 book chapters, and two books on language learning and the teaching of reading and writing to deaf students. He found that writing in journals (especially dialogue journals) tapped into knowledge and personal experience, and that it promoted reflection and the development of language and writing.