Conclusion: Continuities of Early Frames and Claims

In this study, I have analyzed and discussed writing about different forms of travel and mobility in North America, Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America. The authors of my primary material either were U.S. citizens or lived for extensive periods in British North America or the United States. The initial assumption informing my reading is that the writing – whether about domestic or foreign land – both reflected and shaped the evolving ideas of the nation between 1770 and 1830. The detailed examination shows that these reports, topographies, memoirs, natural histories, and narrative fiction draw depictions of the nation that