An Abolitionist Abroad Sarah Parker Remond in Cosmopolitan Europe / Sirpa Salenius.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Salenius, Sirpa, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Remond, Sarah Parker, 1826-1894--Travel--Europe.

Remond, Sarah Parker, 1826-1894.

American Anti-Slavery Society--Biography.

American Anti-Slavery Society.

African American intellectuals--Biography.

African American intellectuals.

African Americans--Intellectual life--19th century.

African Americans.

African American abolitionists--Biography.

African American abolitionists.

African American women abolitionists--Biography.

African American women abolitionists.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 233 pages :) illustration ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017

Place of Publication:

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2016]

Summary:

Sarah Parker Remond (1826-1894) left the free black community of Salem, Massachusetts, where she was born, to become one of the first women to travel on extensive lecture tours across the United Kingdom.Remond eventually moved to Florence, Italy, where she earned a degree at one of Europe's most prestigious medical schools.

Contents:

Introduction: Sarah Remond and the Black American grand tour

Remond and antebellum free Black communities

Early activism in the United States

England, 1858-1866

Advocate for racial and gender emancipation

Abolitionists for Italian Risorgimento

Firenze "La Bella"

Transatlantic cosmopolitan in Italy

Coda.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-61376-481-2

OCLC:

1012312578