A trip to California : and several addresses to the Negro farmers' congress of…
"A trip to California" by Thomas Sewell Inborden is a travelogue and collection of addresses written in the early 20th century. It chronicles a principal’s transcontinental journey to and through the American West, linking vivid travel observations with practical counsel on agriculture, education, race relations, and community uplift for Black audiences, and it also reflects on the work of Brick School. The opening of the work presents an epistolary report of a
five-month circuit of roughly twelve thousand miles from Chicago across the Dakotas, Montana, Washington, Oregon, and California, then back east through Utah and Colorado to the Midwest and home. Inborden catalogs places, trains, mountains, and valleys while noting standout scenes—Puget Sound and its markets, Oregon’s and California’s orchards, Butte’s mines, and the engineering feats of irrigation and power—alongside statistics and market details that matter to farmers. He repeatedly comments on city cleanliness, schools, churches, and museums; the presence and prospects of Black residents; and the industriousness of Japanese growers. He also records the many talks he gave, the Black theater he witnessed, and encounters with notable African American professionals in northern cities. The section closes with his return to North Carolina and a brief transition into a discussion of farm life. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Inborden, Thomas Sewell, 1865-1951 |
|---|---|
| LoC No. | 34010996 |
| Title | A trip to California : and several addresses to the Negro farmers' congress of North Carolina |
| Original Publication | Raleigh: Mitchell Printing Company, 1922. |
| Credits | Bob Taylor, Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | E151: History: America: United States |
| Subject | United States -- Description and travel |
| Subject | Farm life |
| Subject | Joseph Keasbey Brick agricultural, industrial and normal school, Enfield, N.C. |
| Subject | African Americans -- North Carolina |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 78199 |
| Release Date | Mar 13, 2026 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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