ABSTRACT
Southerners and Strangers. More and more the South was per ceived as a product of unique circumstances, not only by southern ers, but by northern visitors and travellers. Many took the early viewpoint of the Rev. William Ellery Channing, a founder of Unitarianism who, in youth, spent a year and a half in Richmond, Virginia as a tutor. His recollections of the South as charming, and as living by laws different from those governing northern expectations and society stayed with him many years: indeed until the abolitionist clamor caused him to review his assumptions.
