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Sirpa Salenius - An Abolitionist Abroad: Sarah Parker Remond in Cosmopolitan Europe - 9781625342461 - V9781625342461
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An Abolitionist Abroad: Sarah Parker Remond in Cosmopolitan Europe

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Description for An Abolitionist Abroad: Sarah Parker Remond in Cosmopolitan Europe Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages, 2 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; HBTS; WTLC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
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. Her language skills enabled her to join elite salons in Florence and Rome, where she entertained high society with musical soirees even while maintaining connections to European emancipation movements.

Remond's extensive travels and diverse acquaintances demonstrate that the nineteenth-century grand tour of Europe was not exclusively the privilege of ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press United States
Number of pages
232
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Massachusetts, United States
ISBN
9781625342461
SKU
V9781625342461
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99-1

About Sirpa Salenius
Sirpa Salenius is project assistant professor at the Centre for Global Communication Strategies at the University of Tokyo, Japan, and affiliated with the University of Eastern Finland.

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